Fish on Prozac

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dc.contributor.authorParks Nen_US
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dc.date.issued2003 Nov 4en_US
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dc.description.abstractFish in Texas are absorbing antidepressant drugs from waste water, according to a new study. The chemicals can apparently alter brain activity in the fish, but a general sense of well-being isn't the likely payoff, the researchers say. To find out whether fish in the Trinity River Basin north of Dallas are affected by the widely prescribed antidepressants Prozac and Zoloft, ecologist Bryan Brooks of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and his colleagues tested samples of three common fish in Pecan Creek. In the brains and livers of the fish, the researchers found concentrations as high as 30 parts per billion of the active ingredients and breakdown products of the drugsen_US
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dc.notesAccession Number: 11446464; Parks, Noreen; Source Information: 11/4/2003, p1; Subject Term: SEWAGE; Subject Term: ANTIDEPRESSANTS; Subject Term: SERTRALINE; Subject Term: FLUOXETINE; Subject Term: FISHES -- Research; Number of Pages: 2p; Illustrations: 1bw; Document Type: Article; Full Text Word Count: 427en_US
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dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries51393.00en_US
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dc.subjectANTIDEPRESSANTSen_US
dc.subjectFISHESen_US
dc.subjectFISHES -- Researchen_US
dc.subjectFLUOXETINEen_US
dc.subjectRESEARCHen_US
dc.subjectSERTRALINEen_US
dc.subjectSEWAGEen_US
dc.subjectTEXASen_US
dc.subjectTRINITY RIVERen_US
dc.titleFish on Prozacen_US
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