The EU-funded project IDEA aimed to evaluate (a) what parameters and endpoints allow the
detection of endocrine-mediated developmental and reproductive effects of (xeno) …

Traditionally, endocrinologists have discovered hormones by identifying, thanks to a suitable
bioassay, which effectors are involved in the control of a given biological function. By …

Estrogens are ancient molecules that act as hormones in vertebrates and are biologically
active in diverse animal phyla. Sewage contains natural and synthetic estrogens that are …

The induction of vitellogenin in oviparous vertebrates has become the gold standard
biomarker of exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the environment. This biomarker of …

Literature on the basic endocrinology of crustaceans, such as crab, lobster and shrimp,
suggest that estrogens, eg, 17β-estradiol, are stimulating hormones in female sexual …

The effects of the environmental estrogen 17α‐ethinylestradiol (EE) on mixed populations of
90 individual Gammarus pulex were examined following a 100‐d exposure in a flow …

Abstract In the Baltic Sea ecosystem reproductive disorders have occurred in top consumers
such as seals and some fish-eating birds, due to biomagnification of toxic substances, eg …

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with selected ion monitoring (GC/MS (SIM) has
been employed to study the steroid composition of the ovary of Penaeus monodon at …

In recent years, reports have described endocrine-disruptive effects of environmental
oestrogens in fish, but little is known about similar effects in crustaceans. The objective of the …

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with selected ion monitoring has been employed to
examine extracts from the ovary, eggs, and haemolymph of the marine prawn, Nephrops …