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dc.contributor.authorLiney, KE-
dc.contributor.authorJobling, S-
dc.contributor.authorShears, JA-
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, P-
dc.contributor.authorTyler, CR-
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dc.date.accessioned2007-05-24T14:35:54Z-
dc.date.available2007-05-24T14:35:54Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.citationEnviron Health Perspect. 2005 Oct; 113(10): 1299-1307, Jun 2005en
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/798-
dc.description.abstractSurveys of U.K. rivers have shown a high incidence of sexual disruption in populations of wild roach (Rutilus rutilus) living downstream from wastewater treatment works (WwTW), and the degree of intersex (gonads containing both male and female structural characteristics) has been correlated with the concentration of effluent in those rivers. In this study, we investigated feminized responses to two estrogenic WwTWs in roach exposed for periods during life stages of germ cell division (early life and the postspawning period). Roach were exposed as embryos from fertilization up to 300 days posthatch (dph; to include the period of gonadal sex differentiation) or as postspawning adult males, and including fish that had received previous estrogen exposure, for either 60 or 120 days when the annual event of germ cell proliferation occurs. Both effluents induced vitellogenin synthesis in both life stages studied, and the magnitude of the vitellogenic responses paralleled the effluent content of steroid estrogens. Feminization of the reproductive ducts occurred in male fish in a concentration-dependent manner when the exposure occurred during early life, but we found no effects on the reproductive ducts in adult males. Depuration studies (maintenance of fish in clean water after exposure to WwTW effluent) confirmed that the feminization of the reproductive duct was permanent. We found no evidence of ovotestis development in fish that had no previous estrogen exposure for any of the treatments. In wild adult roach that had previously received exposure to estrogen and were intersex, the degree of intersex increased during the study period, but this was not related to the immediate effluent exposure, suggesting a previously determined programming of ovotestis formation.en
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dc.publisherNational Institute of Environmental Health Scienceen
dc.subjectDifferentiationen
dc.subjectEffluenten
dc.subjectEndocrineen
dc.subjectFishen
dc.subjectWastewater treatment worksen
dc.titleAssessing the Sensitivity of Different Life Stages for Sexual Disruption in Roach (Rutilus rutilus) Exposed to Effluents from Wastewater Treatment Worksen
dc.typeResearch Paperen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7921-
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