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Analysis of Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Activities Using Recombinant Yeast Assay in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents

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A battery of in vitro recombinant yeast bioassays was conducted to assess the estrogen receptor, androgen receptor, progesterone receptor and thyroid receptor ant/agonistic activities of effluents collected from Datansha wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), furthermore to evaluate the removal efficiencies of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the WWTP. The results showed that estrogenic, anti-androgenic, anti-progesteronic and anti-thyroidic activities were observed in influent. The removal efficiencies of these compounds were more than 80%, which suggested that the present wastewater treatment processes were good enough to remove most of all kinds of endocrine disruption chemicals.

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  1. College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2871, 100085, Beijing, China

    Zijian Wang & Mei Ma

  3. State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510640, Guangzhou, China

    Xianzhi Peng

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Li, J., Wang, Z., Ma, M. et al. Analysis of Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Activities Using Recombinant Yeast Assay in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 84, 529–535 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-010-0004-2

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