Toxicity Assessment on the Levels of Select Metals in the Critically Endangered Indian White-backed Vulture, Gyps bengalensis, in India.

abstract：:Concentration and human health risks of heavy metals (Pb, Cu, Cr, Cd, As, Ni) in water, sediment, crab (Tympanotonus fuscatus) and periwinkle (Callinectes amnicola) were assayed in New Calabar River, Nigeria. Results revealed that concentration (mg/L) of the metals in water in the two seasons studied, ranged from 1.1E...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Uwah EI,Nwoke IB,Inam EJ,Udosen IE,Udosen ED

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four paddy herbicides and their transformation products (TPs) were monitored in the Sakura River, Japan, during the rice growing seasons of 2009 and 2010. Toxicity tests to an attached diatom, Mayamaea atomus, and a green alga, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, were also conducted. Clomeprop propionic acid, which forms...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Iwafune T,Ara T,Ishihara S,Yokoyama A,Nagai T,Horio T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pollution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been widely used to assess the potential impact of anthropogenic activities on aquatic environments because their occurrence in water is closely tied to urban activities. Many PAHs possess mutagenic and carcinogenic properties (Menzie et al. 1992). PAH distr...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Pathiratne KA,De Silva OC,Hehemann D,Atkinson I,Wei R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information has so far been known on the effects of synthetic progestogen dydrogesterone (DDG) in organisms like fish. This study aimed to investigate the effects of DDG on the transcriptional and biochemical alterations in zebrafish eleuthero-embryos. Zebrafish eleuthero-embryos were analyzed for the transcrip...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Shi WJ,Ying GG,Huang GY,Liang YQ,Hu LX,Zhao JL,Zhang JN

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistence behavior of two combination mix formulations of insecticides viz. profenofos + cypermethrin (Roket 44EC) and chlorpyrifos + cypermethrin (Nacraj-505) were studied in eggplant fruits following spray application at recommended and double dose. Half-life values were calculated from first order dissipation kin...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mukherjee I,Aman Kumar,Ashok Kumar

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Cypermethrin (beta-CP) and beta-Cyfluthrin (beta-CF) are two important pyrethroid insecticides and both consist of two enantiomeric pairs (diastereomers), i.e. four enantiomers. In this study, the stereo and enantioselective degradation of beta-CP and beta-CF in a Tianjin alkaline soil was studied in details by a...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Li ZY,Zhang ZC,Zhang L,Leng L

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous in the marine environment and have been shown to alter the behaviour of some species due to potential neurotoxic effect. However, very little is known on the effect of this stressor on behavioural responses of early and more vulnerable life stages. This study explores the effects of p...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jacob H,Gilson A,Lanctôt C,Besson M,Metian M,Lecchini D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a groundwater flow and mass transport model, this study compared the capability of trenches with permeable backfill for capturing hypothetical contaminant plumes in homogeneous and heterogeneous unconfined aquifers. Longitudinal (parallel to groundwater flow), as well as conventional transverse (perpendicular to...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hudak PF

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Five-week-old female albino rats were given 0.2 or 20.0 mg of lead acetate by gastric intubation daily for seven days. Calcium-47, applied orally or intraperitoneally, was used as marker to assess calcium retention in the body and its excretion by faeces and urine. The animals were killed three days after the last app...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gruden N,Buben M

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromafenozide is a lepidopteran insecticide. It is highly effective in controlling various lepidopteran pests. Chromafenozide technical and formulation (80WP) was applied at 2.5 and 5.0 μg g(-1) in 4 types of soils (air dried and sieved) separately in laboratory condition. Half-lives of active ingredient were calcula...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ditya P,Das SP,Bhattacharyya A

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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 demonstration of artificial groundwater recharge with tertiary effluent was evaluated using a set of bioassays (acute toxicity to Daphnia, genotoxicity, estrogenic and antiestrogenic toxicity). Around 95 % genotoxicity and 53 % antiestrogenicity were removed from the feed water by ozonation, whereas significant redu...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang X,Zhao X

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil arsenic (As) pollution has become a global problem. It is urgent to improve the phytoextraction efficiency of soil As. This study found chemical activators (Span 80/SDS and GSH/Span 80/SDS) that can significantly improve the availability of As and the phytoextraction efficiency of As by Pteris vittata L. in As-co...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Xiang D,Liao S,Tu S,Zhu D,Xie T,Wang G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataturk Dam Lake, the largest impounded lake in Turkey, has been contaminated by domestic, industrial and agricultural effluents coming from Adiyaman city. In this study, we investigated the possible effects of pollutants on several biochemical parameters in the cyprinid fish, Cyprinus carpio, by comparing the paramet...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Fırat Ö,Alıcı MF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fungal parasite (Saprolegniales) of carp eggs was exposed to hexavalent and trivalent chromium compounds at concentrations identical to those used in a study of the effects of the same compounds on carp eggs hatchability. Comparison of data from both experiments revealed that increased egg mortality and increased fu...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Draggan S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV spectra of 29 chlorobiphenyls have been examined. With increasing chloro substitution in which there are less than two chlorine groups ortho to the Ph-Ph bond the lambdamax values for the K band (attributed to the conjugation between the two phenyl rings) are shifted to longer wavelengths and for the more high...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： MacNeil JD,Safe S,Hutzinger O

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Dietary mercury exposure is associated with suppressed immune responsiveness in birds. This study examined the immune-responsiveness of domestic zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) experimentally exposed to mercury through their diet. We used the phytohemagglutinin (PHA) skin-swelling test to assay the effect of two m...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Caudill MT,Spear EL,Varian-Ramos CW,Cristol DA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissipation of penconazole was estimated in peach, plum, apricot, and mango fruits cultivated in different farms using QuEChERS method for sample preparation and High performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector. Following one application of normal dose 25 mL 100 L(-1) water, the average initial deposit...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Abd-Alrahman SH,Ahmed NS

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), an anionic surfactant, has been used extensively due to its low cost and excellent foaming properties. Fifteen different bacterial isolates capable of degrading SDS were isolated from detergent contaminated soil by enrichment culture technique and the degradation efficiency was assessed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Yeldho D,Rebello S,Jisha MS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaculture is currently one of the most rapidly growing production sectors in Vietnam. This publication describes the concentrations of heavy metals in the farming environment and some aquaculture species in the Khanh Hoa Province in Vietnam. The concentration of total As in the sediments ranged from 0.07 to 0.64 mg/...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nghia ND,Lunestad BT,Trung TS,Son NT,Maage A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the concentrations of arsenic and boron were determined in the water and the sediment, as well as in the muscle tissues of Squalius cephalus, Alburnoides bipunctatus, Barbus plebejus and Capoeta tinca from Emet Stream. The fish samples were caught in May 2011 and September 2012. The metal concentrations...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Benzer S

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:Mercury toxicity to aquatic organisms was evaluated in different taxonomic groups showing the following species sensitivity gradient: Daphnia magna > Daphnia longispina > Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata > Chlorella vulgaris > Lemna minor > Chironomus riparius. Toxicity values ranged from 3.49 μg/L (48 h-EC₅₀ of D. mag...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rodrigues AC,Jesus FT,Fernandes MA,Morgado F,Soares AM,Abreu SN

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that mercury potentiated the toxicity and biochemical effects of parathion. Male Coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were fed a sublethal concentration of morsodren (4 ppm as methyl mercury) for 18 weeks. This resulted in an accumulation of 21.0 ppm of mercury in the liver and 8.4 ppm in the carcass. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dieter MP,Ludke JL

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00