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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
21156
World Ranking
3939
National Ranking
77

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Helmut Segner is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research is focused primarily within the domain of Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Immunology, Ecology, and Aquatic Science as subfields.

Their work spans multiple main topics, including Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, and Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species.

Helmut Segner has contributed to several scientific journals, notably publishing in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Immunology, Aquatic Toxicology, and Marine Pollution Bulletin. Some of their recent publications include:

  • Microplastics negatively impact embryogenesis and modulate the immune response of the marine medaka Oryzias melastigma, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Long-term exposure to low 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) concentrations disrupts both the reproductive and the immune system of juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, 2020, Environment International
  • Immunotoxicity of Xenobiotics in Fish: A Role for the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR)?, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • MyFishCheck: A Model to Assess Fish Welfare in Aquaculture, 2021, Animals
  • A guideline to frame stressor effects in freshwater ecosystems, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Their research collaborations are reflected in frequent co-authorship with several scientists, including Christyn Bailey, Thomas Wahli, Jun Bo, Kristina Rehberger, and Heike Schmidt.

Best Publications

  • Contaminated food and uptake of heavy metals by fish: a review and a proposal for further research.

    R. Dallinger;F. Prosi;H. Segner;H. Back

  • Identification of endocrine-disrupting effects in aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates: report from the European IDEA project☆

    H Segner;K Caroll;M Fenske;Colin Janssen

  • Interference of endocrine disrupting chemicals with aromatase CYP19 expression or activity, and consequences for reproduction of teleost fish.

    Ksenia Cheshenko;Farzad Pakdel;Helmut Segner;Olivier Kah

  • Screening and testing for endocrine disruption in fish-biomarkers as "signposts," not "traffic lights," in risk assessment

    Thomas H. Hutchinson;Gerald T. Ankley;Helmut Segner;Charles R. Tyler

  • Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management.

    Rolf Altenburger;Selim Ait-Aissa;Philipp Antczak;Thomas Backhaus

  • Morphological development of the gonads in zebrafish

    G. Maack;H. Segner

  • Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism for investigating endocrine disruption.

    Helmut Segner

  • Aromatase modulation alters gonadal differentiation in developing zebrafish (Danio rerio).

    Martina Fenske;Helmut Segner

  • The development of functional digestive and metabolic organs in turbot, Scophthalmus maximus

    Helmut Segner;Volker Storch;Manfred Reinecke;Werner Kloas

  • The use of fish cells in ecotoxicology. The report and recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 47.

    Argelia Castaño;Niels Bols;Thomas Braunbeck;Paul Dierickx

  • Health of farmed fish: its relation to fish welfare and its utility as welfare indicator

    Helmut Segner;Henrik Sundh;Kurt Buchmann;Jessica Douxfils

  • The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.

    Werner Brack;Rolf Altenburger;Gerrit Schüürmann;Martin Krauss

  • An environmentally relevant concentration of estrogen induces arrest of male gonad development in zebrafish, Danio rerio

    Martina Fenske;Gerd Maack;Christoph Schäfers;Helmut Segner

  • Cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) in teleostean fishes. A review of immunohistochemical studies

    Carmen Sarasquete;Helmut Segner

  • Potencies of estrogenic compounds in in vitro screening assays and in life cycle tests with zebrafish in vivo.

    H Segner;J.M Navas;C Schäfers;A Wenzel

  • Concentration- and time-dependent effects of the synthetic estrogen, 17alpha-ethinylestradiol, on reproductive capabilities of the zebrafish, Danio rerio.

    C Schäfers;M Teigeler;A Wenzel;G Maack

  • Nonlesions, misdiagnoses, missed diagnoses, and other interpretive challenges in fish histopathology studies: a guide for investigators, authors, reviewers, and readers.

    Jeffrey C. Wolf;Wes A. Baumgartner;Vicki S. Blazer;Alvin C. Camus

  • Larval nutritional physiology: studies with Clarias gariepinus, Coregonus lavaretus and Scophthalmus maximus.

    Helmut Segner;Roland Rösch;Johan Verreth;Ulrich Witt

  • Alterations of physiological energetics, growth and reproduction of Daphnia magna under toxicant stress.

    M Knops;R Altenburger;H Segner

  • Antiestrogenicity of β-naphthoflavone and PAHs in cultured rainbow trout hepatocytes : evidence for a role of the arylhydrocarbon receptor

    José Marı́a Navas;Helmut Segner

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Wahli
Thomas Wahli University of Bern
Patricia Burkhardt-Holm
Patricia Burkhardt-Holm University of Basel
Gerrit Schüürmann
Gerrit Schüürmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Thomas Braunbeck
Thomas Braunbeck Heidelberg University
Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Rik I.L. Eggen
Rik I.L. Eggen ETH Zurich
Rolf Altenburger
Rolf Altenburger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Leo Posthuma
Leo Posthuma Radboud University

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