Altered reproduction in fish exposed to pulp and paper mill effluents: roles of individual compounds and mill operating conditions

LM Hewitt, TG Kovacs, MG Dubé… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
For the last 20 years, studies conducted in North America, Scandinavia, and New Zealand
have shown that pulp and paper mill effluents affect fish reproduction. Despite the level of …

Endocrine disruptor impacts on fish from Chile: the influence of wastewaters

RO Barra, G Chiang, MF Saavedra, R Orrego… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Industrial wastewaters and urban discharges contain complex mixtures of chemicals
capable of impacting reproductive performance in freshwater fish, called endocrine …

Freshwater biodiversity and conservation in mediterranean climate streams of Chile

R Figueroa, N Bonada, M Guevara, P Pedreros… - Hydrobiologia, 2013 - Springer
In Chile, mediterranean climate conditions only occur in the Central Zone (ChMZ). Despite
its small area, this mediterranean climate region (med-region) has been recognised as a …

Effects of pulp and paper mill discharges on caged rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Biomarker responses along a pollution gradient in the Biobio River, Chile

R Orrego, A Burgos, G Moraga‐Cid… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Caging experiments were conducted using hatchery‐reared, immature, female rainbow trout
(Oncorhynchus mykiss) in three previously defined areas of the Biobio River (south central …

Estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects of wood extractives present in pulp and paper mill effluents on rainbow trout

R Orrego, J Guchardi, R Krause, D Holdway - Aquatic toxicology, 2010 - Elsevier
Wood extractives present in pulp and paper mill effluents may cause reproductive
disturbances in fish. A chronic-exposure toxicity experiment using immature rainbow trout …

Pulp and paper mill effluent treatments have differential endocrine‐disrupting effects on rainbow trout

R Orrego, J Guchardi, V Hernandez… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Endocrine disruption (ED) effects due to pulp and paper mill effluents extracts involving
different industrial procedures and effluent treatments (nontreated, primary, and secondary …

Estrogenicity and intersex in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to Pine/Eucalyptus pulp and paper production effluent in Chile

G Chiang, R Barra, M Díaz-Jaramillo, M Rivas… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2015 - Elsevier
Pulp and paper mill effluents (PPMEs) have been shown to increase gonad size, cause
early maturation, and disrupt hormone functions in native and non-native Chilean fish. In this …

Assessing wild fish exposure to ligands for sex steroid receptors from pulp and paper mill effluents in the Biobio River Basin, Central Chile

R Orrego, LM Hewitt, M McMaster, G Chiang… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioactive substances in the Biobio River Basin in Chile were examined by deploying Semi
Permeable Membrane Devices (SPMDs) upstream and downstream of 4 pulp mill effluent …

Organic pollutants in paper-recycling process water discharge areas: First detection and emission in aquatic environment

M Terasaki, H Fukazawa, Y Tani, M Makino - Environmental Pollution, 2008 - Elsevier
In this study, eight compounds have been identified and quantified from the samples
collected from paper-recycling process water discharge areas. In particular, five aryl …

The anti-estrogenic activity of sediments from agriculturally intense watersheds: Assessment using in vivo and in vitro assays

MKS Jeffries, NH Conoan, MB Cox, JL Sangster… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2011 - Elsevier
The goal of the current study was to determine whether sediments from agriculturally intense
watersheds can act as a potential source of anti-estrogenic endocrine-disrupting …