Chiral pharmaceuticals: A review on their environmental occurrence and fate processes

E Sanganyado, Z Lu, Q Fu, D Schlenk, J Gan - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
More than 50% of pharmaceuticals in current use are chiral compounds. Enantiomers of the
same pharmaceutical have identical physicochemical properties, but may exhibit differences …

Recent advances in environmental risk assessment of transformation products

BI Escher, K Fenner - Environmental science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
When micropollutants degrade in the environment, they may form persistent and toxic
transformation products, which should be accounted for in the environmental risk …

Steroids in a typical swine farm and their release into the environment

S Liu, GG Ying, LJ Zhou, RQ Zhang, ZF Chen, HJ Lai - water research, 2012 - Elsevier
The occurrence and fate of fourteen androgens, four estrogens, five glucocorticoids and five
progestagens were investigated by rapid resolution liquid chromatography-tandem mass …

Occurrence and distribution of natural and synthetic progestins, androgens, and estrogens in soils from agricultural production areas in China

X Yang, X He, H Lin, X Lin, J Mo, C Chen, X Dai… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The occurrence of biologically potent sex hormones in agricultural soils is of growing
concern due to their ability to disrupt the endocrine systems of aquatic organisms after being …

Detection, identification and determination of chiral pharmaceutical residues in wastewater: Problems and challenges

A Dogan, J Płotka-Wasylka… - TrAC Trends in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chiral pharmaceuticals (CPs) are widely used in different areas of human life, thus they are
frequently detected in different ecosystems. However, before CPs reach the environment …

Steroids in marine aquaculture farms surrounding Hailing Island, South China: occurrence, bioconcentration, and human dietary exposure

S Liu, H Chen, XR Xu, SS Liu, KF Sun, JL Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
The occurrence, bioconcentration, and human dietary exposure via seafood consumption of
24 steroids were investigated by rapid resolution liquid chromatography–tandem mass …

A critical review of the environmental occurrence and potential effects in aquatic vertebrates of the potent androgen receptor agonist 17β‐trenbolone

GT Ankley, KK Coady, M Gross… - Environmental …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Trenbolone acetate is widely used in some parts of the world for its desirable anabolic
effects on livestock. Several metabolites of the acetate, including 17β‐trenbolone, have …

Occurrence, fate and risk assessment of androgens in ten wastewater treatment plants and receiving rivers of South China

JN Zhang, GG Ying, YY Yang, WR Liu, SS Liu, J Chen… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Androgens are one class of steroids that could cause endocrine disrupting effects in aquatic
organisms. However, little information is available about androgens in wastewater treatment …

The effect of particle size on sorption of estrogens, androgens and progestagens in aquatic sediment

JL Sangster, H Oke, Y Zhang, SL Bartelt-Hunt - Journal of Hazardous …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is growing concern about the biologic effects of steroid hormones in impacted
waterways. There is increasing evidence of enhanced transport and biological effects …

Steroid hormone runoff from agricultural test plots applied with municipal biosolids

YY Yang, JL Gray, ET Furlong, JG Davis… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
The potential presence of steroid hormones in runoff from sites where biosolids have been
used as agricultural fertilizers is an environmental concern. A study was conducted to …