Air-borne heavy metal contamination to dietary vegetables: a case study from India.

abstract：:Certain microbes can biotransform antibiotics. Little is known about these microbes or the biotransformation processes. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of background nutrient conditions on a sulfonamide degrading culture and on its biotransformation of sulfadiazine (SDZ) with respect to transf...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Levine RE,Zhang Y,Leng Y,Snow DD,Cassada D,Durso LM,Li X

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of concern for both ecosystem and human health due to their potential teratogenic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic properties. The concentration of ∑16PAHs in foliar dust ranged from 49.4 to 19,018.1 µg kg-1, with a mean value of 7074.5 µg kg-1. There were significant seasonal v...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zha Y,Zhang Y,Ma Z,Tang J,Sun K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total mercury (Hg) content of the soft tissues of cultured oysters of the genus Crassostrea obtained during the dry and rainy seasons at sampling sites of NW Mexico with different degrees of urbanization, was determined by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Hg levels ranged from 0.05 to 0.37 µg/g (dry...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Delgado-Álvarez CG,Ruelas-Inzunza J,Osuna-López JI,Voltolina D,Frías-Espericueta MG

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) blood samples from the Sierra Nevada Natural Park (Spain) were analyzed to establish concentrations of toxic and essential elements. Samples (whole blood from 32 males and 34 females) were taken from wild animals and the concentrations of inorganic elements considered as (1) non-essentia...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ráez-Bravo A,Granados JE,Cano-Manuel FJ,Soriguer RC,Fandos P,Pérez JM,Pavlov IY,Romero D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate copper uptake and its toxicity on bioenergy grass giant reed (Arundo donax L.), experiments were carried out using two epigenetic clonal lines - American (BL) and Hungarian (20SZ) ecotypes - grown on elevated Cu concentrations up to 26.8 mg L(-1). Neither ecotype showed any noticeable foliar symptoms of Cu...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Elhawat N,Alshaal T,Domokos-Szabolcsy É,El-Ramady H,Antal G,Márton L,Czakó M,Balogh P,Fári M

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Brinjal fruits were sprayed with recommended dose (0.001%) of cypermethrin. Effects of processing viz. washing, cooking in water, cooking in oil, microwave cooking, and grilling was studied to dislodge cypermethrin residues on brinjal. Cypermethrin residues remaining in the control and processed samples were analyzed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Walia S,Boora P,Kumari B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The examination of ten arterial specimens from nine experimental dogs shows a generally persistent accumulation of cadmium in the blood vessels following acute cadmium exposure. Gel filtration analysis of the aorta revealed that this vascular cadmium is largely confined to the insoluble cellular compartment. The left ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Amacher DE,Ewing KL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legislation such as the Stockholm Convention and REACH aim to identify and regulate the production and use of chemicals that qualify as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) chemicals, respectively. Recently, a series of studies on planetary boundary threats proposed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Reppas-Chrysovitsinos E,Sobek A,MacLeod M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal pollution in Sediments and Avicenna marina tissues in the Hara Biosphere Reserve was monitored for Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), and Nickel (Ni) with atomic absorption spectrometer. The results showed that the mean concentration of Pb, Cd, and Ni in the water and sediments were much higher than the recommended th...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nowrouzi M,Pourkhabbaz A,Rezaei M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to biomonitor the tolerance level of roadside plant species towards mitigation of air pollution for the development of greenbelt. The leaves of four plant species (Azadirachta indica, Ficus benghalensis, Melia azedarach and Polyalthia longifolia) were collected from 41 sampling sites of...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Yadav R,Pandey P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tannery effluent and soils samples were collected from 12 different sites of an agricultural area receiving treated tannery wastewater near Kanpur city (India). The samples were analyzed for heavy metals (Fe, Cr, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ni and Pb) content with a view to assess the impact of industrial wastewater on agricultural s...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gupta AK,Sinha S,Basant A,Singh KP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, zebrafish embryos were used to assess the neurotoxicity of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP), diethyl phthalate (DEP) and their mixture. Four-hour post-fertilization (hpf) zebrafish embryos were exposed to various concentrations of DBP, DEP and their mixture (DBP-DEP) until 96 hpf. The transcriptions le...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Xu H,Shao X,Zhang Z,Zou Y,Chen Y,Han S,Wang S,Wu X,Yang L,Chen Z

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) and decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209, 0, 3 and 30 mg/kg) on rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Wuyunjing) in field free-air CO2 enrichment system. Rice at elevated (580 ppm) CO2 had increased net photosynthetic rate, intercellular CO2 concentration, shoot biomass, yield and phosp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mao L,Wang YB,Zhu CW,Yin Y,Guo HY

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residue dynamics of thiacloprid in cabbage and soil was studied in this paper utilizing liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The field trial was conducted in two sites: Beijing, China and Hubei, China. Thiacloprid dissipated rapidly with the half-life 1.3-1.6 days in cabbage and 2.1-3.1 days...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wang C,Guan WB,Zhang HY

更新日期：2011-10-01 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 degree of interaction between mercury and cholinesterase inhibiting pesticides was determined by comparing enzyme responses to sublethal dosages of parathion or carbofuran in quail fed 0.05, 0.5, or 5.0 ppm morsodren for 18 weeks. A statistically significant interaction was defined as greater brain cholinesterase ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dieter MP,Ludke JL

更新日期：1978-04-01 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：:The levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were analyzed in muscle, liver and gills of masu salmon caught in northern Japan. Liver is known to be a major pool site for POPs but there is not much information regarding accumulation of POPs in gills. The salmon were caught at the end of the feeding migration, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Oka M,Arai T,Shibata Y,Miyazaki N

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The acute toxicities of five naphthoquinone compounds to Photobacterium phosphoreum were determined. We evaluated the mechanism of toxicity using the structure-activity relationship technique. The results showed that some factors, including the species of substituents, shape/size of molecule and oil-water partition co...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ding F,Guo J,Li Z,Li LY,Zhang JY,Zhang JH,Lian J,Song WH,Zhu L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In efforts to reduce nonpoint source runoff and improve water quality, Best Management Practices (BMPs) were implemented in the Outlet Larkin Creek Watershed. Farmers need to make scientifically informed decisions concerning BMPs addressing contaminants from agricultural fields. The BMP Tool was developed from previou...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Frasher SK,Woodruff TM,Bouldin JL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were measured in blood plasma of 13 species of birds collected from Ahmedabad, India. Among the various OCPs determined, HCHs and its isomers had higher contribution to the total OCPs. Concentration of summation operatorHCHs varied from 11.4 ng/mL in White ibis Thresk...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dhananjayan V,Muralidharan S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the reported extent of microplastics in the aquatic environment, environmentally relevant exposure information for sediments dredged by the US Army Corps of Engineers will lend context to the risks posed by this contaminant during dredging. We measured the occurrence, abundance, and polymer composition of microp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wilkens JL,McQueen AD,LeMonte JJ,Suedel BC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endrin (1 mg per kg body weight) was daily administered intraperitoneally to rats which were sacrificed in groups of 10 after 5, 12 and 19 days and analyses of blood serums were conpared to appropriate controls. No alterations were found in the concentrations of general serum protein or paper electrophoretically separ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Coleman RL

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on evaluating the metal and metalloid contamination and associated risks in the two vegetables crops, coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea) treated with three water regimes, canal water, groundwater and municipal wastewater. These vegetables are widely consumed by people and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Khan ZI,Ugulu I,Ahmad K,Yasmeen S,Noorka IR,Mehmood N,Sher M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven strains that can degrade nitrobenzene at low temperature were isolated from the sediments of a nitrobenzene-polluted river. One of the strains, NB-1, can mineralize 20 mg/L nitrobenzene completely from 2.5 to 35 degrees C with an optimum temperature of 25 degrees C. NB-1 was identified as Pseudomonas putida acco...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Li Y,Hu H,Wu Q

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manure, soil, and vegetable samples were collected from different-sized livestock farms in Xinxiang, China. The residues of sulfadiazine, sulfamonomethoxine, and sulfamethoxazole were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. The results indicated that the concentration ranges of the three total sulfonamides...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jin C,Wei S,Sun R,Zou W,Zhang X,Zhou Q,Liu R,Huang L

更新日期：2020-11-01 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