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Article: Research findings from Troy University update understanding of science.(Report)
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- June 17, 2009
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"Induction of the cytochrome P450 enzymes in fish, measured as ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity, has been extensively used as a biomarker in assessing exposures and responses of aquatic organisms to contaminants. This study focused on whether exposure to Troy (Alabama) wastewater treatment plant (TWWTP) effluent at the Walnut Creek mixing zone, induced transcription of mRNA for cytochrome P4501A1 enzyme production and increased EROD activity in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)," scientists writing in the journal Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management report.
"Water from Big Creek (Barbour County, AL), regarded as least impacted by pollutants, was ...