Integrated assessment of oil pollution using biological monitoring and chemical fingerprinting.

abstract：:There is growing concern about possible effects of exploitation of the Alberta Oil Sands on the ambient environment, including possible effects on populations of fishes in the Athabasca River and farther downstream in Lake Athabasca and the Slave River. In the present study, concentrations of metals in dorsal muscle t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Tendler B,Ohiozebau E,Codling G,Giesy JP,Jones PD

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in northern leopard frogs collected from the Green Bay ecosystem and explored the catalytic activity of hepatic cytochrome P450-associated monooxygenase (P450 enzyme) as ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Huang YW,Karasov WH,Patnode KA,Jefcoate CR

更新日期：1999-10-01 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 ventilation amplitude and frequency of silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus, and the ventilation frequency of rainbow fish Melanotaenia duboulayi and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, were determined at different temperatures upon exposure to endosulfan and chlorpyrifos, respectively. Silver perch and rainbow fish were...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Patra RW,Chapman JC,Lim RP,Gehrke PC,Sunderam RM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic sea salts are often used to adjust the salinity of effluent, ambient, and laboratory water samples to perform toxicity tests with marine and estuarine species. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) provides guidance on salinity adjustment in its saltwater test guidelines. The U.S. EPA suggests ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Arnold WR,Cotsifas JS,Winter AR,Klinck JS,Smith DS,Playle RC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the development of new solvents from biomass. Some of these new solvents have been classified as green because of their renewable and sustainable source. However, characterization from the ecotoxicological and physicochemical points of view is needed to categorize...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Zuriaga E,Giner B,Ribate MP,García CB,Lomba L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) were continuously exposed to two concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) dissolved in seawater (sigma PAH = 7.57 and 72.31 microg/L) for 36 d, followed by 8 d of depuration. The PAHs studied were naphthalene (NPH or C0-NPH), phenanthrene (PHE or C0-PHE), pyr...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jonsson G,Bechmann RK,Bamber SD,Baussant T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reference method for the Canada-wide standard (CWS) for petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) in soil provides laboratories with methods for generating accurate and reproducible soil analysis results. The CWS PHC tier 1 generic soil-quality guidelines apply to 4 carbon ranges/fractions: F1 (C6-C10), F2 (C10-C16), F3 (C16-...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kelly-Hooper F,Farwell AJ,Pike G,Kennedy J,Wang Z,Grunsky EC,Dixon DG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil column experiments were conducted to investigate the release of aged organic contaminants (adsorbable organohalogens, [AOX]) and the potential effects of microbial turnover of soil organic matter onto the contaminant release from two different soils of former wastewater infiltration sites. Under reference conditi...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Reemtsma T,Savric I,Jekel M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical ultraviolet (UV) filter benzophenone-3 (BP-3) is suspected to be an endocrine disruptor based on results from in vitro and in vivo testing. However, studies including endpoints of endocrine adversity are lacking. The present study investigated the potential endocrine-disrupting effects of BP-3 in zebrafis...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kinnberg KL,Petersen GI,Albrektsen M,Minghlani M,Awad SM,Holbech BF,Green JW,Bjerregaard P,Holbech H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymer adsorbent Tenax has been widely employed for studying desorption of organic contaminants in soils and sediments and for correlating physical availability with bioavailability. Although Tenax has been invoked to act as an infinite sink that completely and instantaneously removes solutes from the aqueous pha...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Zhao D,Pignatello JJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based algal assays were developed to explore the bioavailability of copper to the marine alga Thalassiosira weissflogii. A calibration strategy was developed that avoided use of the synthetic ligand ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in the Aquil growth medium, thereby allowing ambient metal speciation....

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Karner DA,Shafer MM,Overdier JT,Hemming JD,Sonzogni WC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riverine runoff samples were collected monthly from March 2005 to February 2006 from the eight major outlets of the Pearl River Delta (PRD), South China, and analyzed to obtain the concentrations of n-alkanes in both the filtrate and particulate phases. The average concentrations of Sigma(C15-C34) (i.e., sum of C15 to...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wang JZ,Ni HG,Guan YF,Zeng EY

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and water composition on the toxicity of copper to juvenile freshwater mussels (fatmucket, Lampsilis siliquoidea) were evaluated in natural and reconstituted waters. Acute 96-h copper toxicity tests werec onducted at four nominal DOC concentrations (0, 2.5, 5, and 10 mg/...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wang N,Mebane CA,Kunz JL,Ingersoll CG,May TW,Arnold WR,Santore RC,Augspurger T,Dwyer J,Barnhart MC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis was conducted of studies that reported behavior and chemo/mechanosensory responses by fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrates in Cu-containing waters and also reported sufficient water chemistry for calculation of hardness-based and biotic ligand model (BLM)-based water quality criteria (WQC) for C...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Meyer JS,DeForest DK

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a terrestrial biotic ligand model (TBLM) for higher plants requires a root-Cu accumulation value that corresponds to the 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50). However, it is not yet known which of the two previously reported Cu-binding ligands on the root is associated with Cu toxicity. The aim of the pr...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Antunes PM,Hale BA,Ryan AC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) stable isotope analysis is an emerging technique that has contributed to a better understanding of many aspects of the biogeochemical cycling of Hg in the environment. However, no study has yet evaluated its usefulness in elucidating the sources of methylmercury (MeHg) in songbird species, a common organi...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Tsui MT,Adams EM,Jackson AK,Evers DC,Blum JD,Balogh SJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the estrogenic hormones 17 beta-estradiol and 17 alpha-ethinyl estradiol can be quantified in polluted waters by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and gas chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS/MS), the compounds often are present at concentrations below detection limits. Enzyme-linked immu...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Huang CH,Sedlak DL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first of seven papers resulting from a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) international workshop titled "The Influence of Global Climate Change on the Scientific Foundations and Applications of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry." The workshop involved 36 scientists from 11 count...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Stahl RG Jr,Hooper MJ,Balbus JM,Clements W,Fritz A,Gouin T,Helm R,Hickey C,Landis W,Moe SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of antidepressants on wildlife are currently raising some concern because of an increased number of publications indicating biological effects at environmentally relevant concentrations (<100 ng/L). These results have been met with some scepticism because of the higher concentrations required to detect eff...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ford AT,Fong PP

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Adsorption of organic compounds onto hard carbon constituents of soils and sediments may be described by a dual Langmuir-like equation for adsorption onto high-energy sites and low-energy sites. To describe quantitatively the sorbate-sorbent interactions on these high-energy sites and low-energy sites, Gibbs free ener...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： van Noort PC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effects of dietary methylmercury (MeHg) on immune system development in captive-reared nestling American kestrels (Falco sparverius) to determine whether T cell-mediated and antibody-mediated adaptive immunity are targets for MeHg toxicity at environmentally relevant concentrations. Nestlings ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Fallacara DM,Halbrook RS,French JB

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity and efficacy of a bacteria-based commercial bioremediation agent (CBA) was assessed through bioassays with juvenile inland silverside minnows, Menidia beryllina, and flask studies of oil degradation. Addition of the CBA to weathered Alaska, USA North Slope crude oil (ANS-521) prior to testing increased to...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bidwell JR,Cherry DS,Merski AT

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of municipal wastewater reduces the concentrations of some pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), hormones, and drugs of abuse. However, reduced concentrations of these micropollutants in wastewater may not correlate with reduced toxicity because transformations of micropollutants and/or the for...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Maya N,Crispo C,McFarland V,Nasuhoglu D,Isazadeh S,Yargeau V,Metcalfe CD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the relative importance of copper (aqueous Cu and CuO particles of different sizes) added to sediment to determine the bioaccumulation, toxicokinetics, and effects in the deposit feeder Potamopyrgus antipodarum. In experiment 1, the bioaccumulation of Cu (240 µg Cu/g dry wt of sediment) adde...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Pang C,Selck H,Banta GT,Misra SK,Berhanu D,Dybowska A,Valsami-Jones E,Forbes VE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the utility of gene-transcriptional responses in the liver of mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), a species introduced to many countries and therefore widely available, for detecting endocrine-disrupting activity in water. Exposure to β-naphthoflavone, an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist, significantl...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kamata R,Itoh K,Nakajima D,Kageyama S,Sawabe A,Terasaki M,Shiraishi F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the behavior of the estrogenic biomarker vitellogenin (VTG) under the combined impact of estrogens and pathogens, parasite-infected or noninfected rainbow trout were exposed to two doses of 17β-estradiol (E2). Infected and E2-exposed fish showed significantly lower hepatic VTG mRNA levels than healthy fish....

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Burki R,Krasnov A,Bettge K,Rexroad CE 3rd,Afanasyev S,Antikainen M,Burkhardt-Holm P,Wahli T,Segner H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption is indicative of an organism's metabolic state, whereby alterations in respiration rate can result from the presence of different stimuli. Here, we develop a novel approach based on quenched fluorescence oxygen sensing and respirometry method for toxicity screening assays using the nematode Caenorha...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Schouest K,Zitova A,Spillane C,Papkovsky D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels and distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in various tissues of hens foraging near an electronic wastes stack spot in Taizhou, China, were studied. With high-resolution gas chromatography/negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry analysis, 37 PBDE congeners from di- to hepta-brominated and...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Liang SX,Zhao Q,Qin ZF,Zhao XR,Yang ZZ,Xu XB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00