Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
Current and Future Perspectives
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The urgent need for designing greener drugs
The pervasive contamination of ecosystems with active pharmaceutical ingredients poses a serious threat to biodiversity, ecosystem services and public health. Urgent action is needed to design greener drugs th...
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Open AccessPrioritizing Strategies for Building the Resilience of Public Health Systems to Disasters Across Multiple Communities and Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need to strengthen public health systems. In response, the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Public Health System Resilience Scorecard (Scorecard) was ...
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Identifying Behavioral Response Profiles of Two Common Larval Fish Models to a Salinity Gradient
Salinization of aquatic systems is an emerging global issue projected to increase in magnitude, frequency, and duration with climate change and landscape modifications. To consider influences of salinity on lo...
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Open AccessPrior exposure to microcystin alters host gut resistome and is associated with dysregulated immune homeostasis in translatable mouse models
A strong association between exposure to the common harmful algal bloom toxin microcystin and the altered host gut microbiome has been shown. We tested the hypothesis that prior exposure to the cyanotoxin micr...
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Open AccessEvidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour: a systematic map protocol
Globally, there is growing concern over the impacts of pharmaceuticals and drug manufacturing on aquatic animals, and pharmaceuticals are now recognized as contaminants of emerging environmental concern. In re...
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Open AccessDifferential influences of (±) anatoxin-a on photolocomotor behavior and gene transcription in larval zebrafish and fathead minnows
Though anatoxin-a (antx-a) is a globally important cyanobacterial neurotoxin in inland waters, information on sublethal toxicological responses of aquatic organisms is limited. We examined influences of (±) an...
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Plasma Vitellogenin Reveals Potential Seasonal Estrogenicity in Fish from On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems in Semi-Arid Streams Influenced by Snowmelt
Effluents from on-site wastewater treatment systems can influence surface water quality, particularly when infrastructure is aging, malfunctioning, and improperly installed. Municipal wastewater often contains...
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Determination of citalopram in fish brain tissue: benefits of coupling laser diode thermal desorption with low- and high-resolution mass spectrometry
Recent state-of-the-art methods developed for the analysis of polar xenobiotics from different types of biological matrices usually employ liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry. However, there are limit...
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Revisiting inland hypoxia: diverse exceedances of dissolved oxygen thresholds for freshwater aquatic life
Water resources in many regions are stressed by impairments resulting from climate change, population growth and urbanization. In the United States (US), water quality criteria (WQC) and standards (WQS) were e...
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Erratum to: A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms
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A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms
Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms of Prymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA. In the south central USA, P. parvum blooms have commonly spanned hundreds of kilometers. There is much evidence that physio...
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Comparative Pharmacology and Toxicology of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Diphenhydramine Protection of Diazinon Toxicity in Danio rerio but Not Daphnia magna
Pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern present unique challenges to environmental risk assessment and management. Fortunately, mammalian pharmacology and toxicology safety data are more rea...
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Street Dust: Implications for Stormwater and Air Quality, and Environmental Management Through Street Swee**
Street dust is composed of particles that arise from motor vehicles (e.g., tire debris, emission-related particulates), local soils, and road pavement (Yeung et al. 2003). These materials are commingled with l...
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Assessment of Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Health Indicators in Relation to Domestic Wastewater Discharges in Suburbs of Houston, USA
Personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and other contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in domestic wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents can impact aquatic organisms. Health indicators were compared...
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Selective Pressurized Liquid Extraction Technique Capable of Analyzing Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs in Clams and Crab Tissue
A selective pressurized liquid extraction technique (SPLE) was developed for the analysis of polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorodibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorobiphenyls (dl-PCBs) in clam an...
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Sublethal silver and NaCl toxicity in Daphnia magna: a comparative study of standardized chronic endpoints and progeny phototaxis
Behavioral bioassays with the model freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna have the potential to serve as nontraditional but sensitive endpoints of sublethal stress. However, few studies have examined the comparativ...
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Carbon sink to source: longitudinal gradients of planktonic P:R ratios in subtropical reservoirs
Spatial patterns of planktonic production and respiration in the surface mixed layer were examined in eight Texas, USA reservoirs to test the hypothesis that P:R ratios are lowest in upreservoir inflow zones a...
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Perspectives on Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
Human interaction with the environment remains one of the most pervasive facets of modern society. Whereas the anthropocene is characterized by rapid population growth, unprecedented global trade and digital c...
