Search Results - "Brion, Francois"
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Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-04-2015)“…Environmental quality monitoring of water resources is challenged with providing the basis for safeguarding the environment against adverse biological effects…”
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Exploring BPA alternatives – Environmental levels and toxicity review
Published in Environment international (01-07-2024)“…Bisphenol A alternatives are manufactured as potentially less harmful substitutes of bisphenol A (BPA) that offer similar functionality. These alternatives are…”
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Expression and estrogen-dependent regulation of the zebrafish brain aromatase gene
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (16-05-2005)“…Compared with adult mammals, the brain of teleost fish is characterized by an extremely high capacity to aromatize androgens into estrogens, and this metabolic…”
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Identification of Synthetic Steroids in River Water Downstream from Pharmaceutical Manufacture Discharges Based on a Bioanalytical Approach and Passive Sampling
Published in Environmental science & technology (01-04-2014)“…A bioanalytical approach was used to identify chemical contaminants at river sites located downstream from a pharmaceutical factory, where reproductive…”
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In vitro and in vivo estrogenic activity of BPA, BPF and BPS in zebrafish-specific assays
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety (01-08-2017)“…Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical that has been extensively studied as an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC). Other bisphenols sharing close…”
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Effect-based trigger values for in vitro and in vivo bioassays performed on surface water extracts supporting the environmental quality standards (EQS) of the European Water Framework Directive
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-07-2018)“…Effect-based methods including cell-based bioassays, reporter gene assays and whole-organism assays have been applied for decades in water quality monitoring…”
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Human and Zebrafish Nuclear Progesterone Receptors Are Differently Activated by Manifold Progestins
Published in Environmental science & technology (04-08-2020)“…The environmental risk of natural and synthetic ligands of the nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) has been pointed out, however there is still a lack of…”
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Integrating chemical analysis and bioanalysis to evaluate the contribution of wastewater effluent on the micropollutant burden in small streams
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-01-2017)“…Surface waters can contain a range of micropollutants from point sources, such as wastewater effluent, and diffuse sources, such as agriculture. Characterizing…”
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Mixture effects in samples of multiple contaminants – An inter-laboratory study with manifold bioassays
Published in Environment international (01-05-2018)“…Chemicals in the environment occur in mixtures rather than as individual entities. Environmental quality monitoring thus faces the challenge to comprehensively…”
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Cell-Specific Biotransformation of Benzophenone‑2 and Bisphenol‑S in Zebrafish and Human in Vitro Models Used for Toxicity and Estrogenicity Screening
Published in Environmental science & technology (17-03-2015)“…Several human and fish bioassays have been designed to characterize the toxicity and the estrogenic activity of chemicals. However, their biotransformation…”
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Monitoring estrogenic activities of waste and surface waters using a novel in vivo zebrafish embryonic (EASZY) assay: Comparison with in vitro cell-based assays and determination of effect-based trigger values
Published in Environment international (01-09-2019)“…This study reports the use of the recently developed EASZY assay that uses transgenic cyp19a1b-GFP zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos to assess in vivo estrogenic…”
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Screening estrogenic activities of chemicals or mixtures in vivo using transgenic (cyp19a1b-GFP) zebrafish embryos
Published in PloS one (07-05-2012)“…The tg(cyp19a1b-GFP) transgenic zebrafish expresses GFP (green fluorescent protein) under the control of the cyp19a1b gene, encoding brain aromatase. This gene…”
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Combined effects of environmental xeno-estrogens within multi-component mixtures: Comparison of in vitro human- and zebrafish-based estrogenicity bioassays
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-07-2019)“…Some recent studies showed that in vitro bioassays based on fish or human estrogen receptor (ER) activation may have distinct responses to environmental…”
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Development of a bioanalytical test battery for water quality monitoring: Fingerprinting identified micropollutants and their contribution to effects in surface water
Published in Water research (Oxford) (15-10-2017)“…Surface waters can contain a diverse range of organic pollutants, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds. While bioassays have been…”
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Differential activity of BPA, BPAF and BPC on zebrafish estrogen receptors in vitro and in vivo
Published in Toxicology and applied pharmacology (01-10-2019)“…The high volume production compound bisphenol A (BPA) is of environmental concern largely because of its estrogenic activity. Consequently, BPA analogues have…”
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Aromatase in the brain of teleost fish: Expression, regulation and putative functions
Published in Frontiers in neuroendocrinology (01-04-2010)“…Abstract Unlike that of mammals, the brain of teleost fish exhibits an intense aromatase activity due to the strong expression of one of two aromatase genes…”
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Metformin in Reproductive Biology
Published in Frontiers in endocrinology (Lausanne) (22-11-2018)“…Initially produced in Europe in 1958, metformin is still one of the most widely prescribed drugs to treat type II diabetes and other comorbidities associated…”
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ReadEDTest: A tool to assess the readiness of in vitro test methods under development for identifying endocrine disruptors
Published in Environment international (01-04-2023)“…Growing evidence shows that endocrine disruptors (EDs), known to affect the reproductive system, may also disturb other hormone-regulated functions leading to…”
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Adverse effects in wild fish living downstream from pharmaceutical manufacture discharges
Published in Environment international (01-11-2011)“…A set of biochemical and histological responses was measured in wild gudgeon collected upstream and downstream of urban and pharmaceutical manufacture…”
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European demonstration program on the effect-based and chemical identification and monitoring of organic pollutants in European surface waters
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-12-2017)“…Growing concern about the adverse environmental and human health effects of a wide range of micropollutants requires the development of novel tools and…”
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