Global Endocrine Disruptor Research Project Level Inventory
United Kingdom by Primary Focus
- Evaluation of endocrine disruption in fish and aquatic invertebrates.
- A short-term screen for endocrine disruption in juvenile fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)
- Effects of environmental pollutants on fish reproduction
- 1) Investigation of wild populations of fish to determine evidence of endocrine disruption 2) Effects of endocrine disruptors on early life stages of fish 3) Effects of sewage effluents on sex differentiation
- Aquatic ecotoxicology
- Effects of endocrine disruptors on marine fish
- Fate & effects of reproductive endocrine disruptors in the aquatic environment
- Endocrine Disruption in the Marine Environment : EDMAR
- Determination of the effect of Bisphenol-A (BPA) on the life-cycle of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)
- The effect of oestrogenic compounds on the life history of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis
- Endocrine Disruption in the Marine Environment (EDMAR)
- Effects of Oestrogenic Substances in the Aquatic Environment
- Review of the evidence for ecological effects of environmental sex hormone disrupters
Exposure Assessment
- Early life stage exposure to environmental oesrtogens in relation to reproductive and developmental ecology of model and commercially important species
- The influence of environmental oestrogens on vitellogenesis in crustaceans
Human Health Effects
- CHAPS-UK: CHemicals And Pregnancy Study - UK
- Sperm quality studies - Measuring seminiferous tubules
- Endocrine disruption in the marine environment (EDMAR)
- Production of draft OECD Detailed Review Paper on methods to detect sex hormone disrupting activity
- Exposure to endocrine-disruptor chemicals assessed by ligand-receptor interaction analysis of human body fluids
- Development of a sensitive assay for androgenic activity using prostate cell lines
- Production of report of the European Workshop on the Impact of Endocrine Disrupters on Human Health and Wildlife
- Do industrial estrogens or their metabolites influence male reproductive function ? A pilot study using mammalian cell lines.
- Review of phytoestrogens in the human diet
- Early life stage exposure to environmental oesrtogens in relation to reproductive and developmental ecology of model and commercially important species
Ecological Effects
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