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A review of phytoestrogens: Their occurrence and fate in the environment

Zehua Liu, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 44, Iss: 2, pp 567-577
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This review will summarize estrogenic activities or estrogenic potencies of phytoestrogens by different bioassays, and compare their urinary excretion rates to that of estrone, which suggests that most phy toestrogens may occur in municipal wastewaters.
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This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 125 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phytoestrogens.

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Review of risk from potential emerging contaminants in UK groundwater.

TL;DR: The routes by which these compounds enter groundwater, their toxicity and potential risks to drinking water and the environment are discussed, and challenges that need to be met are identified to minimise risk to Drinking water and ecosystems.
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Photochemical decomposition of endocrine disrupting compounds – A review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the photochemical decomposition of EDCs, including direct photolysis, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) and photosensitized oxidation (POx).
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Catalytic properties, functional attributes and industrial applications of β-glucosidases

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview on detailed functional roles of β-glucosidases in different organisms, their industrial applications, and recent cloning and expression studies with biochemical characterization of such enzymes is presented for the better understanding and efficient use of diverse β- glucOSidases.
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The fate of pharmaceuticals, steroid hormones, phytoestrogens, UV-filters and pesticides during MBR treatment.

TL;DR: This study examined the relationship between molecular properties and the fate of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) in the aqueous and solid phases during wastewater treatment by MBR to provide a framework to predict the removal and fate of TrOCs byMBR treatment.
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Water contamination by endocrine disruptors: Impacts, microbiological aspects and trends for environmental protection.

TL;DR: This review describes problems associated with EDCs, primarily estrogenicEDCs, including exposure as well as the present status of understanding and the effects of natural and synthetic hormones and estrogenic EDCs on living organisms, and describes potential biotechnological strategies for EDC biodegradation.
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Interaction of estrogenic chemicals and phytoestrogens with estrogen receptor beta.

TL;DR: The estrogenic activity of environmental chemicals and phytoestrogens in competition binding assays with ERα or ERβ protein, and in a transient gene expression assay using cells in which an acute estrogenic response is created by cotransfecting cultures with recombinant human ERβ complementary DNA (cDNA) in the presence of an estrogen-dependent reporter plasmid are investigated.
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Bioactive compounds in foods: their role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer

TL;DR: Many bioactive compounds are extranutritional constituents that typically occur in small quantities in foods and are grouped accordingly as phenolic compounds, including their subcategory, flavonoids as discussed by the authors.
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Dietary Isoflavones: Biological Effects and Relevance to Human Health

TL;DR: This review focuses on the more recent studies pertinent to this field and includes, where appropriate, the landmark and historical literature that has led to the exponential increase in interest in phytoestrogens from a clinical nutrition perspective.
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Persistence of pharmaceutical compounds and other organic wastewater contaminants in a conventional drinking-water-treatment plant

TL;DR: This study provides the first documentation that many of the organic wastewater-related contaminants that represent a diverse group of extensively used chemicals can survive conventional water-treatment processes and occur in potable-water supplies.
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Monitoring Natural and Synthetic Estrogens at Activated Sludge Sewage Treatment Plants and in a Receiving River Water

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical method involving analyte extraction with a Carbograph 4 cartridge and LC coupled with negative turbo ion spray tandem mass spectrometry in the selected reaction monitoring mode was developed.
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