Assessment of total mercury levels in Clarias gariepinus from the Sagua la Grande River, Cuba.

abstract：:The relationship between sex, size (length and weight) and metal concentrations in the tissues of two commercially valuable fish species (silver pomfret, Pampus argenteus and tiger tooth croaker, Otolithes ruber) from Persian Gulf were evaluated. Concentrations of the metals in fish species ranged as follows: Mn 0.743...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mortazavi MS,Sharifian S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal contamination in Chennai city was evaluated using a heavy metal pollution index (HPI) model in conjunction with the spatial distribution maps. Metals such as Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn in the groundwater were determined using standard methods and the resultant data was utilized in the development of a HPI model...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sajil Kumar PJ,Davis Delson P,Thomas Babu P

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of estrogens (estrone: E1, 17beta-estradiol: E2, estriol: E3 and ethinylestradiol: EE2) and an androgen (testosterone) in the water and sludge from Johkasou in Japan was investigated. The concentrations of E1, E2, E3 and testosterone in water samples from the Johkasou were 33-500, N.D. approximately 150, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nakagawa S,Matsuo H,Motoyama M,Nomiyama K,Shinohara R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two season field experiment was conducted to study the magnitude of Benthiocarb residue in transplanted paddy field soil of plough layer (6''), beyond the plough layer (12'') as well as in harvested straw, grain and husk. Transplanted paddy fields were treated once with Benthiocarb (Saturn 50 EC) @1500 g.a.i., 2500 ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Aktar MW,Gupta A,Gade V,Bhattacharyya A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the protective role of thiourea on the physiological, hematological, biochemical and histopathological parameters of Leuciscus cephalus exposed to sublethal concentration of Pendigan 330 EC herbicide. The animals were divided in four experimental groups (control, animals subject...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Paunescu A,Zgurschi G,Soare LC,Man GM,Brinzea G,Fierascu RC,Fierascu I,Ponepal MC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption of contaminants plays an important role in the process of their elimination from a polluted environment. This work describes the issue of loading environment with lead Pb(II) and the resulting negative impact it has on plants and living organisms. It also focuses on bentonite as a natural adsorbent and ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hegedűsová A,Hegedűs O,Tóth T,Vollmannová A,Andrejiová A,Šlosár M,Mezeyová I,Pernyeszi T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed if the concentrations of methylmercury (MeHg) in predatory and non-predatory fish caught in the Upper Solimões River are safe for human consumption, according to the reference values established by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). MeHg concentrations were evaluated in m...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： da Silva SF,Pereira JPG,Oliveira DC,Lima MO

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint toxicity of Pb2+, Cr3+, Co2+ and Ni2+ toward Photobacterium phosphoreum (Ph. phosphoreum) at the no observed effect concentration (NOEC) was determined through a factorial experiment. A neural network model was designed according to experimental results and employed for toxicity prediction of unary, binary, tern...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zeng Y,Wang L,Jiang L,Cai X,Li Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthworms are bioindicators of soil pollution. The ecotoxicity of tailings from selected gold mines in South Africa was investigated utilizing Eisenia andrei bioassays and biomarkers. Samples were obtained from unrehabilitated, rehabilitated and naturally vegetated sites. Biomass, neutral red retention time (NRRT), s...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Maboeta MS,Oladipo OG,Botha SM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural lands are exposed to pesticides continuously, which impact on habitat of wild species, such birds. The purpose of this study was to determine the plasma cholinesterase activity in two passeriform wild birds, the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) and the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), from agricultura...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： González-Escalante L,Mercado-Hernández R,González-Rojas JI,Bermúdez de León M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a preliminary report on total mercury (T(Hg)) in core sediments (<63 microm particle size) of Sunderban mangrove wetland, northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, India. Cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS) was used for T(Hg) determination. The concentration varies from 9.8 to 535.1 ppb (ngg(-1)). ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kwokal Z,Sarkar SK,Chatterjee M,Franciskovis-Bilinski S,Bilinski H,Bhattacharya A,Bhattacharya BD,Alam MA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amelioration of mine soil is challenging because of the lack of biologically active organic matter. The study was aimed to recycle yard waste into compost and biochar and to use them to reclaim mine soil. Biochar prepared at 350 °C showed the highest stable organic matter yield index and was used for the experiments. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mukhopadhyay S,Masto RE,Singh AK,Singh PK

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The amendment of biochar in soils contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is an environmentally friendly in situ remediation measure. Numerous studies focused on the application of biochars to reduce the uptake of POPs by plants in soils. In this review, we summarized the role of biochar in reducing the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ni N,Kong D,Wu W,He J,Shan Z,Li J,Dou Y,Zhang Y,Song Y,Jiang X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiesel is promoted as environmentally less harmful than diesel fuel. Nevertheless its water-soluble-fraction (WSF) may contain methanol, which appears by a reversion of the transesterification reaction, when biodiesel contacts water. This paper evaluated the loss of the lysosomal membrane integrity in liver homogen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： da Cruz AC,Leite MB,Rodrigues LE,Nascimento IA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays rare earth elements (REEs) are widely applied in high-technology and clean energy products, but their environmental risks are still largely unknown. To estimate the ecological risk of REEs, soil samples were collected from REE mine tailings with and without phytoremediation. The results showed that the tailin...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhao CM,Shi X,Xie SQ,Liu WS,He EK,Tang YT,Qiu RL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was performed in order to clarify the degree of heavy metals pollution in forest, agricultural and industrial surface soil samples in relation to pre-anthropogenic soils of Almyros region, in Central Greece. In 2004 and 2005 soil samples were collected and analysed for available (DTPA method) and to...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Golia EE,Dimirkou A,Mitsios IK

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2003, two sampling strategies were applied in order to evaluate metal contamination in passerine bird feathers. One strategy included the use of nest boxes and nestling great tits in a forest habitat (MU). The other strategy focused on the use of mist nets to capture adult blackbirds, robins and blackcaps in a frag...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Costa RA,Petronilho JM,Soares AM,Vingada JV

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of the insecticidal Cry1Ab protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) by various crops from soils on which Bt corn had previously grown was determined. In 2005, the Cry1Ab protein was detected by Western blot in tissues (leaves plus stems) of basil, carrot, kale, lettuce, okra, parsnip, radish, snap bean, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Icoz I,Andow D,Zwahlen C,Stotzky G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic plant, Canna indica L. (Indian shoot) of Cannaceae family was investigated to assess cadmium scavenging potential at 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 150 mg Cd L-1 exposers. The results showed that Canna has considerable potential of cadmium accumulation, which was up to 58.69 and 10.13 mg Cd kg-1 dry weight in root...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Solanki P,Narayan M,Rabha AK,Srivastava RK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fish, selenium can bioaccumulate and cause adverse impacts. One of the fish species potentially at risk from selenium in the San Francisco Bay (California, USA) is the splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus). Previous studies have derived a whole body NOAEL and LOAEL of 9.0 and 12.9 mg/kg-dw, respectively, for sele...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rigby MC,Deng X,Grieb TM,Teh SJ,Hung SS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of total mercury in the bodies of drake mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) inhabiting an industrialized wetland area in southern Poland was studied. The median Hg concentration in tissue of various bones (0.017 µg/g w.w.) was statistically lower than the concentration found in muscle tissue (0.023 µg/...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Binkowski ŁJ,Przystupińska A,Wojtaś W

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the environmental toxicity of 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HOQ), an important industrial raw material found in China's major ornamental fish, Cryprinus carpio, using the acute toxicity test, hepatase activity analysis and the comet assay. The results indicated that 8-HOQ had significant acute toxicity in adult C....

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Yan S,Chen L,Dou X,Qi M,Du Q,He Q,Nan M,Chang Z,Nan P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DR-Congo is a main world producer of copper (Cu) and cobalt (Co). Several hydrometallurgical plants and smelters also produced zinc, arsenic, and cadmium as by-products. In Sudbury (Canada), the production of nickel, copper and other metals has been maintained at high levels while industrial SO(2) emissions have been ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Narendrula R,Nkongolo KK,Beckett P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead levels in small mammals were studied in 6 areas -- 3 associated with highways of different traffic densities, and 3 control sites in forested areas. Lead levels were also studied in insects from 2 traffic areas and in earthworms from different distances from 2 traffic areas. Lead levels were low in insects rangin...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Goldsmith CD Jr,Scanlon PF

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 50 surface industrial area soil in Eskisehir, Turkey were collected and the concentrations of As, Cr, Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe and Mg, at 11.34, 95.8, 1.37, 15.28, 33.06, 143.65, 14.34, 78.79 mg/kg, 188.80% and 78.70%, respectively. The EF values for As, Cu, Pb and Zn at a number of sampling sites were fo...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Malkoc S,Yazici B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different resilience concepts have different assumptions about system dynamics, which has implications for resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. Engineering resilience (recovery) dominates in the risk assessment literature but this definition does not account for the possibility of ecosystems to e...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Angeler DG,Allen CR,Garmestani A,Pope KL,Twidwell D,Bundschuh M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using several extraction methods including the QuEChERS approach, samples of both model and natural sediments were prepared. For the isolation of the target group of pesticides, two variants of two complementary extractions had to be used. Resulting extracts were analysed with LC/MS/MS. Selected methods furnishing the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kvíčalová M,Doubravová P,Jobánek R,Jokešová M,Očenášková V,Süssenbeková H,Svobodová A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Cd on a halophyte of Doingying wild soybean (DY-03262) were studied by comparing it with a cultivated soybean (SN-11) via investigating photosynthetic activity, chlorophyll fluorescence and Cd concentrations in leaves after treatment with different concentrations of Cd (0, 50, and 100 μM) for 10 days. T...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Xue Z,Gao H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, biochar particles (BPs) produced by the co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge and corncobs at temperatures of 300, 500, and 700°C were characterized. The Pb2+ adsorption properties and the heavy metal leaching toxicity rates of the BPs were investigated. It was found that the adsorption kinetics of the P...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hong Y,Xu Z,Feng C,Xu D,Wu F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the impact of cesium ((133)Cs) at four concentrations (0, 0.001, 0.01, and 0.1 mg L(-1)) on growth, concentrations of chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments, and oxidative stress responses in the charophyte, Nitella pseudoflabellata, over 30 days. Oxidative stress was quantified by measuring a...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Atapaththu KS,Rashid MH,Asaeda T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00