Matthiessen

J. Harries, D. Sheahan, S. Jobling, P. Matthiessen, P. Neall, E. Routledge, R. Ryeroft, J. Sumpter... 

Returning to the question of endocrine disruption, it is now known that over 100 species of gastropods worldwide suffer from a condition described as imposex, the development of male characteristics by females. It has already been established for some species (e.g., dog whelk) that TBT is the cause of this, and it is suspected that organotin compounds account for most cases of imposex worldwide (Matthiessen and Gibbs 1998). Some examples of masculinization of female gastropods caused by tributyltin are given in Table 8.4. 

Matthiessen, P. and Gibbs, PE. (1998). Critical Appraisal of the Evidence for TBT-Mediated Endocrine Disruption in Molluscs—A concise review of effects of TBT on molluscs. Scheuhammer, A.M and Sandheimich, M.B (Eds.) (2008). Special issue of the journal Ecotoxicology devoted to effects of methyl mercury on wildlife, which gives recent results of field studies conducted in North America. 

Hill, I.R., Matthiessen, R, and Heimbach, F. (Eds.) (1993). Guidance Document on Sediment Toxicity Tests and Bioassays for Ereshwater and Marine Environments. SETAC Europe Workshop on Sediment Toxicity Assessment. Renesse, the Netherlands, November 8-10, 1993. 

Matthiessen, P. and Gibbs, P.E. (1998). Critical appraisal of the evidence for TBT-mediated endocrine disruption in molluscs. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17, 31-A3. 

Matthiessen, P., Sheahan, D., and Harrison, R. et al. (1995). Use of a Gammarus pulex bioassay to measure the effects of transient carbofuran runoff from farmland. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 30, 111-119. 

Rees, H.L., Waldock, R., and Matthiessen, P. et al. (2001). Improvements in the epifauna of the Crouch Estuary (United Kingdom) following a decline in TBT concentrations. Marine Pollution Bulletin 42, 137-144. 

Jobling S, Sheahan D, Osborne JA, Matthiessen P, Sumpter JP (1996) Inhibition of testicular growth in rainbow-trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to estrogenic alkylphenolic chemicals. Environ Toxicol Chem 15 194-202... 

Matthiessen, P. and A.E. Brafield. 1977. Uptake and loss of dissolved zinc by the stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Jour. Fish Biol. 10 399-410. 

R. Craig Matthiessen, Estimating Chemical Exposure Levels in the Workplace, Chemical Engineering Progress (April 1986), p. 30. 

Matthiessen J, Kirkegaard J (2006) Biofumigation and enhanced biodegradation opportunity and challenge in soilborne pest and disease management. Crit Rev Plant Sci 25 235-265. doi 10.1080/07352680600611543... 

Hurley MA, Matthiessen P, Pickering AD (2004) J Theor Biol (in press)... 

Lithium - the atomic number is 3 and the chemical symbol is Li. The name derives from the Latin lithos for stone because lithium was thought to exist only in minerals at that time. It was discovered by the Swedish mineralogist Johan August Arfwedson in 1818 in the mineral petalite LiAl(Si205)2. It was isolated in 1855 by the German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Augustus Matthiessen. 

Persoone, G. Janssen, C.R. Field validation of predictions based on laboratory toxicity tests. In Freshwater Field Tests for Hazard Assessment of Chemicals Hill, I.A., Helmbach, F., Leeuwangh, P., Matthiessen, P., Eds. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, EL, 1994 379-397. 

Thomas K.V., M.R. Hurst, P. Matthiessen, M. McHugh, A. Smith, and M.J. Waldock (2002). An assessment of in vitro androgenic activity and the identification of environmental androgens in United Kingdom estuaries. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21 1456-1461. 

The A. marina bioassay is routinely used in the UK, but only in more saline conditions (Thain and Bifield, 2001). The survival of this polychaete in our study was hardly affected by the sediments tested during the study, but the number of casts produced varied considerably (Table 6). Significant effects with the above sediment in vivo bioassays used here have been demonstrated in other studies, not only in Dutch harbour sediments, but also marine and estuarine environments (Matthiessen et ah, 1998 Kater et al., 2001 Stronkhorst, et al., 2003b). 

Allen, Y, Matthiessen, R, Scott, A.P., Haworth, S., Feist, S., Thain, J.E. (1999a). The extent of oestrogenic contamination in the UK estuarine and marine environments - further surveys of flounder. Science of The Total Environment, 23 5-20. 

Kirby, M.F., Allen, Y.T., Dyer, R.A., Feist, S.W., Katsiadiki, I., Matthiessen, P., Scott, A.P., Smith, A., Stentiford, G.D., Thain, J.E., Thomas, K.V., ToUiurst, L., Waldock, M.J. (2004). Surveys of plasma vitellogenin and intersex in male flounder (Platichthys flesus) as measures of endocrine disruption by estrogenic contamination in United Kingdom estuaries temporal trends, 1996 to 2001. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 23 748-758. 

Matthiessen, P. and Law, R.J. (2001). Contaminants and their effects on estuarine and coastal organisms in the United Kingdom in the late twentieth century. Environmental Pollution, 120 739-757. 

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