A yeast estrogen screen without extraction provides fast, reliable measures of estrogenic activity.

abstract：:Most studies examining the influence of ecological characteristics of fish on Hg concentration in fish tissues have focused on a few variables and been conducted in northern ecosystems. We examined how total length (TL), age, food-web position (estimated using delta13C and delta15N), and habitat were related to total ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Chumchal MM,Hambright KD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is proposed for estimating metabolic biotransformation rate constants for nonionic organic chemicals from measured laboratory bioconcentration and dietary bioaccumulation data in fish. Data have been selected based on a quality review to reduce uncertainty in the measured values. A kinetic mass balance model ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Arnot JA,Mackay D,Bonnell M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently reported quantification of the atmospheric sampling artifact for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) was applied to existing gas and particle concentration measurements. Specifically, gas phase concentrations were increased by a factor of 3.5 and particle-bound concentrations by a factor of 0.1. The correlation...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Webster EM,Ellis DA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmaceuticals released into aquatic systems are expected to sorb to sediments to varying degrees. Their sorption is likely to influence their fate and, ultimately, the risk they pose to aquatic organisms. This has led to the European Medicines Agency requiring an assessment of affinity to solids, using batch sorptio...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Williams M,Ong PL,Williams DB,Kookana RS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea urchin sperm fertilization bioassay is an approved U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) biomonitoring tool for regulatory and compliance purposes. The method adapted for the Hawaiian species Tripneustes gratilla recommends a sperm-to-egg ratio of 2,500. Using a fixed ratio for all tests does not suf...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Vazquez LC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) has resulted in the widespread occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater, drinking water, soils, sediments, and receiving waters throughout the United States and other countries. We present the research and development efforts to date by the Str...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Leeson A,Thompson T,Stroo HF,Anderson RH,Speicher J,Mills MA,Willey J,Coyle C,Ghosh R,Lebrón C,Patton C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with different physicochemical properties originated from the food (dietary input) was assessed in raptor nestlings. Lipophilic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) 153, 1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (p,p'-DDE), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and protein-bo...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bustnes JO,Bårdsen BJ,Herzke D,Johnsen TV,Eulaers I,Ballesteros M,Hanssen SA,Covaci A,Jaspers VL,Eens M,Sonne C,Halley D,Moum T,Nøst TH,Erikstad KE,Ims RA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-related influences on polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure were evaluated by employing caged deposit-feeders, Neanthes arenaceodentata, along with polyoxymethylene (POM) samplers using parallel in situ and ex situ bioassays with homogenized untreated or activated carbon (AC) amended sediment. The AC amendment...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Janssen EM,Oen AM,Luoma SN,Luthy RG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural biotic and anthropogenic stressors can interact to alter contaminant toxicity. Energetic restrictions are potential mechanisms causing this pattern. To identify processes underlying observed effects of predation risk and copper (Cu) on delayed copepod age at maturity, we examined how these 2 stressors affect r...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Lode T,Heuschele J,Andersen T,Titelman J,Hylland K,Borgå K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of diet on polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) assimilation was investigated by measuring dietary assimilation efficiencies (AEs) for 47 PCB congeners in juvenile koi (Cyprinus carpio) fed five experimental diets. Two of the diets were naturally contaminated and were obtained by collecting mayflies from Lake ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Liu J,Haffner GD,Drouillard KG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospherically deposited contaminants in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, USA have been implicated as adversely affecting amphibians and fish, yet little is known about the distributions of contaminants within the mountains, particularly at high elevation. The hypothesis that contaminant concentrations in a...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bradford DF,Stanley K,McConnell LL,Tallent-Halsell NG,Nash MS,Simonich SM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the impact of nano titanium dioxide (nTiO(2) ) exposure on the cellular structures of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria Anabaena variabilis. Results of the present study showed that nTiO(2) exposure led to observable alteration in various intracellular structures and induced a series of ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Cherchi C,Chernenko T,Diem M,Gu AZ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess selenium (Se) in the aquatic food chain is embryotoxic and teratogenic to avocets, stilts, and other waterbirds. American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) and black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) eggs were collected from three sites in the Tulare Lake Basin of California, USA, and hatched in the laboratory...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hoffman DJ,Marn CM,Marois KC,Sproul E,Dunne M,Skorupa JP

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The fate and effects of cytostatic (anticancer or antineoplastic) pharmaceuticals in the environment are largely unknown, but they can contaminate wastewater treatment effluents and consequently aquatic ecosystems. In this paper, we have focused on five cytostatic compounds used in high amounts (cyclophosphamide, cisp...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Zounková R,Odráska P,Dolezalová L,Hilscherová K,Marsálek B,Bláha L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of Hg speciation in tissue is valuable for assessing potential toxicological effects in fish. Direct Hg analyzers, which use thermal decomposition and atomic absorption spectrometry, have recently gained popularity for determining organic Hg after procedural solvent extraction from some environmental media, ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Barst BD,Hammerschmidt CR,Chumchal MM,Muir DC,Smith JD,Roberts AP,Rainwater TR,Drevnick PE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis), a protected endangered species, is the sole freshwater subspecies of finless porpoise, living only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China, and its appended lakes. Its population has decreased sharply to 1,400 because of human act...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Yang F,Zhang Q,Xu Y,Jiang G,Wang Y,Wang D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contaminants have been associated with population declines of several amphibian species in California (USA). Pesticides from the Central Valley of California are transported by winds into the Sierra Nevada Mountains and precipitate into wet meadows where amphibians breed. The present study examined the chronic toxicit...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sparling DW,Fellers GM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instream flows of the rapidly urbanizing watersheds and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas (USA) are increasingly dominated by reclaimed waters. Though ionizable pharmaceuticals have received increasing attention in freshwaters, many research questions remain unanswered, particularly in tidally influenced urban ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Scott WC,Du B,Haddad SP,Breed CS,Saari GN,Kelly M,Broach L,Chambliss CK,Brooks BW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations were conducted to determine acute (48-h) effects of cadmium and zinc presented individually and in combination on Ceriodaphnia dubia, Daphnia magna, Daphnia ambigua, and Daphnia pulex. Toxicity tests were conducted with single metals to determine lethal effects concentrations (lethal concentrations pred...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Shaw JR,Dempsey TD,Chen CY,Hamilton JW,Folt CL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) were fed rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in four laboratory tanks over a 133-d experiment. At the start of the experiment, 10 to 14 of the fish in each tank were sacrificed, and the concentrations of 40 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners within these fish were determined. P...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Madenjian CP,O'Connor DV,Rediske RR,O'Keefe JP,Pothoven SA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guideline 203, Fish Acute Toxicity Test, states that the test should be performed using at least five concentrations in a geometric series with a separation factor not exceeding 2.2, with at least seven fish per concentration. However, the efficiency of thi...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Rufli H,Springer TA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a multimetal toxicity model requires insight into the relationships between the composition of metal mixtures and their toxicological effects on organisms. As a first step in developing such a model, quantitative data from binary and higher mixture studies of Cu, Cd, and Zn were compiled and used to assess ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Vijver MG,Elliott EG,Peijnenburg WJ,de Snoo GR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of literature regarding sublethal and chronic toxicity of heavy metals to early life stages of marine species is restricted to a few species of invertebrate mollusks. The early life stage of abalone, an important gastropod both environmentally and commercially, has been involved in limited research in...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Gorski J,Nugegoda D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic effects of many persistent organic pollutants (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls or polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans) are mediated via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). Although polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives also activate AhR, their toxic effects remain to be fully el...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sovadinová I,Bláha L,Janosek J,Hilscherová K,Giesy JP,Jones PD,Holoubek I

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential differences in species susceptibility to nanoparticle (NP) contaminants make the use of multispecies community toxicity testing strategies beneficial in understanding NP risk to aquatic environments. Because of the limited knowledge of zinc oxide (ZnO) NP fate and toxicity, we conducted multispecies exposure...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wu F,Harper BJ,Harper SL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little work has been conducted on the adsorption of arsenic to the mixed iron [Fe(II)/(III)] oxide magnetite and the effect that environmental parameters, such as pH, ionic strength, and temperature, have on adsorption. Magnetite nanoparticles are unique because of their affinity for both arsenate and arsenite and inc...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Shipley HJ,Yean S,Kan AT,Tomson MB

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimenters in toxicology often compare the concentration-response relationship between two distinct populations using the median lethal concentration (LC50). This comparison is sometimes done by calculating the 95% confidence interval for the LC50 for each population, concluding that no significant difference exist...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wheeler MW,Park RM,Bailer AJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative mussel biomonitoring studies often use laboratory-measured whole-body elimination rate coefficients (k(tot) in conjunction with concentration data from field-deployed mussels to estimate bioavailable steady-state contaminant concentrations (C(m(ss)) in aquatic systems. However, the validity of applying la...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Raeside AA,O'Rourke SM,Drouillard KG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental contaminants can interfere with hormonal regulation in both vertebrates and invertebrates, and these contaminants may disrupt the endocrine system of human and other organisms. Evidence is growing that contaminants may be partly responsible for the observed increase of disease in marine organisms by adve...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Thilagam H,Gopalakrishnan S,Bo J,Wang KJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00