Zebrafish as a model system to study toxicology.

abstract：:The dissolved uptake rate constant (k(u)), dietary assimilation efficiency (AE), and efflux rate constant (k(e)) of cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) were quantified in a freshwater zooplankton Daphnia magna cultured at different ambient calcium (Ca) concentrations. The animals were first acclimated to different ambient Ca l...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Tan QG,Wang WX

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental factors, in particular temperature, have been shown to affect the toxicity of chemicals. In the present study the authors exposed the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to five concentrations of Cd (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 mg Cd/L agar) at four constant temperatures (11, 15, 18, and 21°C) and monitored survival ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Nørhave NJ,Spurgeon D,Svendsen C,Cedergreen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 2000s, biotic ligand models and related constructs have been a dominant paradigm for risk assessment of aqueous metals in the environment. We critically review 1) the evidence for the mechanistic approach underlying metal bioavailability models; 2) considerations for the use and refinement of bioavaila...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Mebane CA,Chowdhury MJ,De Schamphelaere KAC,Lofts S,Paquin PR,Santore RC,Wood CM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicokinetics describe the time course of xenobiotics in an exposed organism. The steady state concentration of the xenobiotic is a characteristic of frequent concern, often summarized in terms of bioaccumulation factors (BAFs). Two experimental protocols are commonly used when estimating BAFs: a continuous exposure ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wheeler MW,Bailer AJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) contamination of aquatic ecosystems is a global environmental problem. Data are abundant on Hg contamination and factors that affect its bioaccumulation in lake communities, but comparatively little information on riverine ecosystems exists. The present study examines fish Hg concentrations of the Lower R...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Smith A,Abuzeineh AA,Chumchal MM,Bonner TH,Nowlin WH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous subchronic exposure experiments were conducted to assess the effects of diazinon, an organophosphate pesticide, on the survival, growth and activity of larvae of the Asian common toad Bufo melanostictus. Two larval stages, the gill stage (Gosner stages 21 and 22) and gill-atrophy stage (Gosner stages 24 and...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sumanadasa DM,Wijesinghe MR,Ratnasooriya WD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six-month-old lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) and nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) were injected intraperitoneally with beta-naphthoflavone (BNF) in corn oil or in vehicle alone. Liver samples were taken and stored at -80 degrees C until microsome preparation and monooxygenase assay. Skin samples were placed...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Melancon MJ,Kutay AL,Woodin BR,Stegeman JJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of hydrophobic organic contaminants in zooplankton have been hypothesized to be governed by either near-equilibrium partitioning with surrounding water, growth dilution, or biomagnification. Concentrations of 17 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were measured in size-fractionated zooplankton, in phytopla...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sobek A,Reigstad M,Gustafsson O

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the toxic effects of substituted anilines on Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata with the use of a closed algal toxicity testing technique with no headspace. Two response endpoints (i.e., dissolved oxygen production [DO] and algal growth rate) were used to evaluate the toxicity of anilines. Both DO an...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Chen CY,Ko CW,Lee PI

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 69 concentration-response curves from 5 acute ecotoxicity assays was fitted with a 2-parameter logistic equation. High correlation between values of regression parameters suggested similar slopes of the curves. This enabled derivation of the empirical single-parameter logistic equation with the sole median ef...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Trögl J,Benediktová K,Pilařová V,Synek V

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic organisms can take up toxicants from water (aqueous exposure) and from food (dietary exposure), yet current environmental regulations often fail to consider the toxic effects of dietary exposure. Such unrealistic exposure scenarios may lead to ineffective water-quality standards or discharge consents that fail...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wilding J,Maltby L

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute and chronic bioassays were used to evaluate the lethal and sublethal effects of copper chloride and tributyltin chloride on mahi mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) embryos, a pelagic life stage often found in the surface microlayer where anthropogenic contaminants can accumulate. Acute bioassay testing determined the me...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Adema-Hannes R,Shenker J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulp and paper mill effluents have been linked to effects on fish reproduction for more than 25 years. To date, the causes of these effects and remedial strategies have eluded investigators. Recent work has shown that the degree of reproductive effect caused by a mill effluent is related to the overall organic content...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kovacs TG,Martel PH,O'Connor BI,Parrott JL,McMaster ME,Van Der Kraak GJ,MacLatchy DL,van den Heuvel MR,Hewitt LM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed study was conducted to determine the current status of the heavy metals Cd, Cu, Cr, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in Eskisehir, Turkey. The 15 different locations (n =270) studied were specifically selected to identify the effects of soil pollution on the tramway, which has been in service since December 2004 ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Malkoc S,Yazıcı B,Savas Koparal A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread use of pesticides often contaminates natural habitats, exposing nontarget organisms to pesticides that were designed to control pest populations. Even low levels of pesticides can affect aquatic communities both directly and indirectly. Previous work has shown that trace amounts of the pesticide chlorpyrifo...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： McClelland SJ,Bendis RJ,Relyea RA,Woodley SK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in stream mesocosms has recently revived for higher tier aquatic macrophyte risk assessment of plant protection products mainly because 1) the highest predicted environmental concentrations for the assessment of effects are frequently derived from stream scenarios, and 2) they allow an effect assessment using...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wieczorek MV,Bakanov N,Lagadic L,Bruns E,Schulz R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median 96-h lethal zinc concentration (LC50) was 439 microg Zn/L (hardness of 154 mg/L as CaCO3) for feral mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi), decreasing to a median incipient lethal level of 266 microg Zn/L after 13 d. The 30-d chronic value was 255 microg Zn/L. The acute toxicity-hardness (ln-ln) slope of 1.022 exc...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Brinkman S,Woodling J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effects of 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE) on the thyroid and steroid-metabolizing system in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr. Fish were exposed to waterborne DDE and thyroxine (T4), both singly and in combination, for 5 d. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSHbeta), ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Mortensen AS,Arukwe A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were measured in surface sediments from 121 locations within the Southern California Bight. Site selection was based on a probabilistic approach to determine the spatial extent and magnitude of PBDE concentrations with known confidence intervals. Coastal embayments (including est...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Dodder NG,Maruya KA,Lauenstein GG,Ramirez J,Ritter KJ,Schiff KC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastics are emerging threat contaminants that have been shown to provide toxic pollutants, either from the environment or from their inherent toxic monomers and additives, a pathway into the aquatic food web. In the present study, the occurrence, abundance, and composition of microplastic load in the surface wat...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Migwi FK,Ogunah JA,Kiratu JM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of potential aquatic exposure concentrations arising from the use of pyrethroid insecticides on cotton produced using conventional procedures outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pesticide Programs Environmental Fate and Effects Division seem unrealistically high. Accordingly, the...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hendley P,Holmes C,Kay S,Maund SJ,Travis KZ,Zhang M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils and sediments in the floodplain of the Tittabawassee River downstream of Midland, Michigan, USA contain elevated concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD). As a long-lived, resident top predator, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus; GHO) has the potent...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Coefield SJ,Zwiernik MJ,Fredricks TB,Seston RM,Nadeau MW,Tazelaar DL,Moore JN,Kay DP,Roark SA,Giesy JP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paralytic shellfish toxins are secondary metabolites produced by several species of dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria. Known targets of these toxins, which typically occur at detrimental concentrations during harmful algal blooms, include voltage-gated ion channels in humans and other mammals. However, the effects of ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Cusick KD,Wetzel RK,Minkin SC Jr,Dodani SC,Wilhelm SW,Sayler GS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of the present study was to derive ecologically relevant effect threshold concentrations of (dissolved) Pb for selected European Union (EU) freshwater rivers, using the 2008 EU Voluntary Risk Assessment Report as a starting point and more advanced methodologies than those used in the Voluntary Risk ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Van Sprang PA,Nys C,Blust RJ,Chowdhury J,Gustafsson JP,Janssen CJ,De Schamphelaere KA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing ecological soil screening levels (Eco-SSLs) for the ecological risk assessment of contaminants at Superfund sites. The Eco-SSLs for several soil contaminants have been developed from toxicity benchmarks for soil invertebrates in the existing literature. Insufficie...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kuperman RG,Checkai RT,Simini M,Phillips CT,Speicher JA,Barclift DJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioaccumulation of current use pesticides (CUPs) and stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen were investigated in vegetation-caribou-wolf food chain in the Bathurst region (Nunavut, Canada). Volumetric bioconcentration factors (BCF(v)) in vegetation were generally greatest for dacthal (10-12) ≥ endosulfan sulfate (...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Morris AD,Muir DC,Solomon KR,Teixeira C,Duric M,Wang X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents concurrently sampled ambient air data for a range of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) at the continental scale. This was achieved with a passive air sampling system, by deploying polyurethane foam disks, which were prepared in one laboratory, sealed to...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jaward FM,Farrar NJ,Harner T,Sweetman AJ,Jones KC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, n = 36) were measured in the gas and particle phases in the atmosphere and the dissolved and particle phases in the waters of the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary, USA, during a weeklong intensive field campaign in July 1998. Mean total (gas + particulate) phenanthrene and pyr...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Gigliotti CL,Brunciak PA,Dachs J,Glenn TR 4th,Nelson ED,Totten LA,Eisenreich SJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis-inhibiting phenylurea derivatives, such as diuron, are widely used as herbicides. Diuron concentrations clearly exceeding the predicted-no-effect concentration have been regularly measured in European freshwater systems. The frequently observed exposure to mixtures of phenylureas additionally increases ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Backhaus T,Faust M,Scholze M,Gramatica P,Vighi M,Grimme LH

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorption of chemical substances to nanoparticles (NPs) in the aqueous phase strongly influences NP physicochemisty, and investigations of these complex interactions can provide important insights into the environmental fate of NPs. The objective of the present study was to use differences in copper (Cu) bioavailabilit...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Patsiou D,Kalman J,Fernandes TF,Henry TB

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00