PubMed · 13222834
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D HUBBLE. 1955-01-01. Endocrine relations.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(55)93207-4
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This work reports the binding capacity of various chemicals (so-called endocrine disruptors) to recombinant human steroid receptors (hERalpha, hPR and hAR). The tested chemicals are organochlorine insecticides (DDT and its metabolites, methoxychlor, aldrin, dieldrin, chlordecone, lindane, trichlorobenzene), estrogenic insecticides (endosulfan, toxaphene, nonachlor), herbicides (alachlor and atrazine), fungicides (benomyl and vinclozolin), industrial chemicals (nonylphenol, bisphenol A, diphenylphtalate), antioxidants (butylated hydroxyanisol) and some phytoestrogens. Except for phytoestrogens, most of the tested chemicals (DDT and its metabolites, aldrin, alpha- and beta-endosulfan, toxaphen, trans-nonachlor) show higher affinities for hPR than for hERalpha, indicating that the interaction with the progesterone receptor could contribute to the endocrine-disrupting effects imputed to these chemicals. We propose to use binding assays using recombinant human steroid receptors as screening tools for the detection of endocrine disruptors in various samples.
We developed an automated on-line solid-phase extraction (SPE)-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method to determine a group of endocrine disruptors in water samples. The interface device used for connecting SPE with GC was a programmed-temperature vaporiser (PTV) whose liner was packed with Tenax. We optimized the parameters that affected both SPE and PTV working in solvent vent mode. The performance of the method was tested with several environmental water samples. The limits of detection of the method were between 0.001 and 0.036 microg l(-1) under full-scan acquisition mode. We determined phthalates and adipate in all real samples at concentrations between 0.11 and 8.10 microg l(-1). Atrazine and p,p'-DDE were also found in an irrigation stream water sample at 0.16 and 0.04 microg l(-1), respectively.