Alteration of root growth by lettuce, wheat, and soybean in response to wear debris from automotive brake pads.

abstract：:Acute toxicity tests of selenium dioxide were conducted for 96 to 336 hr in intermittent-flow bioassay systems using six species of freshwater fish. The decreasing order of species sensitivity was: fathead minnow, flagfish, brook trout, channel catfish, goldfish, and bluegil. Curves relating median lethal concentratio...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Cardwell RD,Foreman DG,Payne TR,Wilbur DJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary hippuric acid, phenol, and o-cresol, which are biomarkers for toluene, benzene, and phenol exposures, are usually present in a significant amount in urine collected from subjects who have not been occupationally exposed to the organic solvents. With the improvement of working environments, the urinary concentr...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kawamoto T,Koga M,Oyama T,Kodama Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen sewage sludges were studied to analyse, with the minimum number of steps, the organic pollutants that the European Union proposes to be controlled for land application. The compounds determined were a selection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); a selection of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); di(2-...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gomez-Rico MF,Font R,Aracil I,Fullana A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluctuations of mercury levels (Hg) in fish consumed by sport fishers in North-Eastern America depend upon a plethora of interrelated biological and abiological factors. To identify the dominant factors ultimately controlling fish Hg concentrations, we compiled mercury levels (Hg) during the 1976-2010 period in 90...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lucotte M,Paquet S,Moingt M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of this research on children's playgrounds with artificial surfaces aimed to establish levels of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in dust, their origin, and impact on children at 15 playgrounds: 9 on school grounds and 6 on day nurseries in Belgrade (Serbia). Soil samples were taken from the immediate vicin...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Čakmak D,Perović V,Kresović M,Pavlović D,Pavlović M,Mitrović M,Pavlović P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts of fungal mycelia of two non-aflatoxigenic isolates of Aspergillus parasiticus (SRRC 163 and SRRC 2043) were examined for enzyme activities involved in the latter stages of aflatoxin biosynthesis. Post-microsomal fractions (105 Kxg supernatant) of both SRRC 163 (ATTC 56774) and SRRC 2043 were able t...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bhatnagar D,Cleveland TE,Lax AR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Birama Swamp is the second largest wetland in the Caribbean region and it is inhabited by large populations of waterbirds. Here we report, for the first time, the foraging ecology and pollutant levels of three Ardeidae species: Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), Snowy egret (Egretta thula), and Tricolored heron (E. tri...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rodríguez A,Acosta M,Mugica L,Ferrer S,Sanpera C,Jover L

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of cadmium and copper were assayed in the estuarine crab Chasmagnathus granulata. Acute assays were made on the first larvae stage, and both acute and chronic assays were made on juvenile crabs. The acute lethal toxicity of the assayed heavy metals was three orders of magnitude higher in larvae than in ju...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Greco LS,Sánchez MV,Nicoloso GL,Medesani DA,Rodríguez EM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residues of organic contaminants--including toxaphene, DDT, trifluralin, hexachlorocyclohexanes, polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nonylphenol--were measured in 32 cotton field soils collected from South Carolina and Georgia in 1999. Toxaphene, trifluralin, DDT and PAHs were the ma...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kannan K,Battula S,Loganathan BG,Hong CS,Lam WH,Villeneuve DL,Sajwan K,Giesy JP,Aldous KM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCHs, DDTs, and PCBs were analyzed in fish flesh collected from fish ponds in the Pearl River Delta and compared with those from the Mai Po Marshes (a nature reserve) in Hong Kong, which was considered an unpolluted area. The concentrations for these contaminants were <0.01-7.8 ng/g lipid for HCHs, 22.3-381 ng/g lipid...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhou HY,Wong MH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have reported polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations in soil, root, and aerial parts of vegetables. However, few studies have measured the contribution of PCBs bound to particles in air in relation to uptake by vegetables. In the present study, PCB concentrations were measured in five types of ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zeng L,Li N,Shao D,Kang Y,Zhang Q,Lu P,Li L,Luo J,Guo X

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of fish to water of impaired quality has been shown to disrupt the function of the hypothalamo-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis and alter the interpretation of data from field studies due to the varying effects of handling and delayed sampling on exposed and reference animals. In the present study, juvenile wh...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lappivaara J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herons and egrets are ideal organisms to use asindicators of heavy metal exposure in an ecosystem because different speciesfeed at different levels of the food chain and live in both coastal andinland habitats. This paper reports on the concentration of heavy metals andselenium in the feathers of cattle egrets Bubulcu...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Burger J,Gochfeld M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eastern North American population of Barrow's goldeneyes winters in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence where the sediments and food web are known to be contaminated with inorganic and organic compounds. Therefore, there is a potential for contamination of this population, which is designated of Spec...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ouellet JF,Champoux L,Robert M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-year-old whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, were exposed to three types of iron-rich water, two dilutions for each, in a subchronic (30-day) experiment. In natural iron-rich humic water, both the bioaccumulation and physiological effects of iron exposure were negligible. In humic-free water with high amount of additi...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lappivaara J,Kiviniemi A,Oikari A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile common carp were exposed for 28 days to three different sublethal copper concentrations (0.20 microM, 0.55 microM, and 0.80 microM). Food consumption was monitored on a daily basis during the exposure period, while growth, copper accumulation, energy stores, and nucleic acid contents were assessed weekly. Cop...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： De Boeck G,Vlaeminck A,Blust R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present project is to determine the feasibility of measuring hepatic cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) and metallothionein (MT) mRNA in fish as an integrative measurement of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metal contamination in sediment arising in Hong Kong. Sediment samples were collected fro...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wong CK,Yeung HY,Cheung RY,Yung KK,Wong MH

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins and spatial and temporal distributions of air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, NO2 and O3) during May to June of 2015 were investigated using data from 1490 monitoring sites in China. Aerosol number concentrations and meteorological data from Shijiazhuang, Nanjing, and Suzhou were combined with the MIX As...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wang H,Shen L,Zhu B,Kang H,Hou X,Miao Q,Yang Y,Shi S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technique was used to determine pore water profile and to assess remobilization character of metals at sediment/water interface. The remobilization of Mn was due to redox reaction in profile, which engendered two large peaks: one with DGT concentration of 1355 µg L(-1) at depth ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wu Z,Jiao L,Wang S,Xu Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell walls of plants, including those of algae, have the capacity to bind metal ions in negatively charged sites. The authors had already shown that the wild type (walled) strain of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Dangeard was more tolerant to Cd, Co, Cu, and Ni than a wall-less mutant of the ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Macfie SM,Welbourn PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study estimated hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) as a sum of three main isomers (α, β, and γ) and tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) in African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) from Gdansk Zoo and in their sole food, Baltic herring (Clupea harengus), from Gdansk Bay. The average concentration of HBCD in whole herrin...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Reindl AR,Falkowska L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sand fiddler crabs, Uca panacea, were exposed in laboratory habitats to measured concentrations of ULV-grade fenthion via simulated aerial spray at 5% and 50% of field rate application of 6-12 mg fenthion/m(2) (0.05-0.10 lbs fenthion/acre). Two habitats served as controls, and two habitats served as replicates for eac...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Schoor WP,Middaugh DP,Marcovich DT

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for simple, fast and inexpensive tests to study metal pollution in the marine environment has become more pressing as utilization of coastal waters increases. To address this concern, the influence of four metals, cupric sulfate, lead nitrate, zinc sulfate and nickel sulfate, on emergence and hatching of the ...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： MacRae TH,Pandey AS

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine (OC) pesticides, and tris(4-chlorophenyl) methane (TCPMe) in human breast milk samples collected in 2003 from primipara mothers living in Penang, Malaysia. OCs were de...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sudaryanto A,Kunisue T,Tanabe S,Niida M,Hashim H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine the spatiotemporal patterns in water quality of River Soan using multivariate statistics. A total of 26 sites were surveyed along River Soan and its associated tributaries during pre- and post-monsoon seasons in 2008. Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis (HACA) classi...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nazeer S,Ali Z,Malik RN

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contaminants entering aquatic systems from agricultural, industrial, and municipal activities are generally sequestered in bottom sediments. The environmental significance of contaminants associated with sediments dredged from Savannah Harbor, Georgia, USA, are unknown. To evaluate potential effects of contaminants in...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Winger PV,Lasier PJ,White DH,Seginak JT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model was designed to study the acute lesions caused by a continuous exposure to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) disolved in water (400 mg/L) in hematopoietic kidney tissue in tench (Tinca tinca L). Fifty fish were used in this study, 15 for calculating LC50 and 35 were euthanized 1, 2, 5, 8, an...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gómez L,Masot J,Martínez S,Durán E,Soler F,Roncero V

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA). Monitoring of the estuary indicates the chemical is present in all components--particularly in sediments and fishes. Residues appear t...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nimmo DR,Hansen DJ,Couch JA,Cooley NR,Parrish PR,Lowe JI

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The summer population of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, declined from an estimated 8.7 million in 1936 to 200,000 in 1974; thereafter, it increased to approximately 700,000 in 1991. This decline has been attributed primarily to organochlorine (OC) pesticide contaminat...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Thies ML,Thies K,McBee K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic wastewater contaminants, including pharmaceuticals, caffeine, and nicotine, have received increased scrutiny because of their detection in water bodies receiving wastewater discharge. Despite recent measurement in United States streams, caffeine's effect on freshwater organisms is not well documented. The pres...

journal_title：Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Moore MT,Greenway SL,Farris JL,Guerra B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00