title: Analysis for estrogens as environmental pollutants--a review.
abstract: The approaches to the analysis for estrogen compounds as environmental pollutants are critically reviewed and evaluated on the basis of significant, recent original publications. The importance of sample pretreatment and analyte preconcentration techniques is pointed out, with an emphasis on SPE and on the use of highly selective interactions such as molecular recognition. The hyphenated systems of high-performance gas or liquid chromatography and mass spectrometric techniques are discussed as the basic methods of determination of estrogens in environmental samples. Immunochemical procedures are shown to be useful in semiquantitative screening of estrogen pollutants (e.g. ELISA kits). Classical HPLC and GC with common UV/Vis, fluorescence and electrochemical detection are useful in routine checking on higher pollutant concentrations.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. pacakova@natur.cuni.cz
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pacáková
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Loukotková
authors.forename: Zuzana
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bosáková
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stulík
mesh_terms: D002845:Chromatography; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D004967:Estrogens / Q000032:analysis*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D004967:Estrogens