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Determination of steroid estrogens in environmental samples using chemical analysis (GC-MSD) and an in vitro estrogenicity assay (ER-Calux®)

Author(s): Miha Avberšek (Author), Ester Heath (Supervisor), Janez Ščančar (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2012

Type: Doctoral dissertation

The presence of steroid estrogens in the environment has been studied intensively for two decades because of their possible deleterious effects on living organisms at very low (ng/L) concentrations. To determine concentrations of steroid estrogens and the estrogenic potential of environmental samples, sophisticated and sensitive analytical techniques as well as …