Phytotoxicity Increase Induced by Zinc Accumulation in Cichorium intybus.

abstract：:Concentrations of lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and cadmium (Cd) were evaluated in the sediments, roots and leaves of a mangrove species (Avicennia marina) in Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA), Manila Bay. The concentrations showed a general pattern of Zn > Pb > Cu > Cd in sedimen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gabriel AV,Salmo SG 3rd

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoidance tests with collembolans provide a quick assessment of soil quality. However, some parameters of the procedure can be modified in order to increase its performance. In this study we assessed the tendency of Folsomia candida to avoid soils contaminated with boric acid [350-700-1400-2800-5600 mg/kg soil dry wei...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bori J,Riva MC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catabolic potential of transformer oil contaminated soil bacteria in aerobic degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) were assessed. Transformer oil contaminated soil sample was subjected to microcosm enrichment experiments (PAS medium/biphenyl as sole carbon source). PCB-degrading activity of the enrichment...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Somaraja PK,Gayathri D,Ramaiah N

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide which gives effective control of plant and leaf hoppers in rice. The persistence and metabolism of imidacloprid in paddy leaves, rice grains, bran, straw and husk were studied following two applications of imidacloprid (Confidor 17.8 SL) @ 20 and 80 g a.i. ha(-1) at an interval o...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Akoijam R,Singh B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sorption of radium 226 ((226)Ra) on different clay materials (bentonite, illite and a mixture of bentonite-illite) was studied. Clay materials are used in the construction of disposal pits for technically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) wastes (i.e., contaminated soil and sludge) genera...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Alhajji E,Al-Masri MS,Khalily H,Naoum BE,Khalil HS,Nashawati A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taiwan is a small island nation, and many aquaculture sites are located near industrial parks. Anthropogenic activities may contaminate fish ponds. Therefore, we investigated the concentrations of eight metal elements in tilapia tissues (muscle and scale) at two fisheries. We compared the difference in metal content i...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ling MP,Hsu HT,Shie RH,Wu CC,Hong YS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of organophosphorous insecticides are chiral compounds. In this study, the enantioselective effects of organophosphate insecticide methamidophos on the coelomocytes lysosomal membrane stability of earthworm Eisenia fetida were studied: (1) The enantiomers of methamidophos were absolutely separated by high-perform...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Chen L,Lu X,Ma Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryos and larvae of seven freshwater fish were exposed to low concentrations of cadmium in soft water. All species were killed or their growth retarded by concentrations ranging from about 4 to 12 microgram Cd/liter. The larvae were consistently more sensitive than the embryos. The agreement between these result...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Eaton JG,McKim JM,Holcombe GW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000, a coal slurry impoundment failure in Martin County, Kentucky, caused concerns about contaminants entering municipal water supplies. Water samples taken from impacted and reference area hot water tanks often exceeded US EPA drinking water guidelines. Concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Pb had maxima ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wigginton A,McSpirit S,Sims CD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial samples of surface and ground water collected from land disposal site of dye waste mixed sewage effluents at Binjhole, in Haryana, India were analyzed to evaluate its effect on quality of pond, hand pumps and ground waters for human health and irrigation purposes. It was found that average COD and TDS of dye h...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dubey SK,Yadav R,Chaturvedi RK,Yadav RK,Sharma VK,Minhas PS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds of the two mungbean cultivars were exposed to 25, 30, 35 and 40 mg L(-1) nickel along with control. Nickel stress decreased growth, photosynthetic pigments, yield attributes and cation (Na(+), K(+) and Ca(2+)) accumulation in mungbean. This reduction was less at 25 mg L(-1) as compared to 40 mg L(-1) nickel. In ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ahmad MS,Hussain M,Saddiq R,Alvi AK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mallard drakes accumulated mercury rapidly from dietary dosage of methylmercury dicyandiamide and eliminated it slowly, retaining approximately one half at the end of 84 days; no measurable loss occurred between the end of the 7th and 56th days, but loss resumed concurrently with new feather growth, and continued thro...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Stickel LF,Stickel WH,McLane MA,Bruns M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leydig cell morphological changes were evaluated using morphometric and stereological methods in male mice exposed to low doses of cadmium. A possible reversibility of the changes after cadmium withdrawal was also considered. Nuclear morphological parameters and stereological densities of the Leydig cell population we...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Blanco A,Moyano MR,Molina AM,Blanco C,Flores-Acuña R,García-Flores JR,Espada M,Monterde JG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury accumulation was investigated by constructing and testing empirical equations based on mercury in soil (C(s)) and in 10 terrestrial insects (C(i)). C(s) ranged from 0.13 to 41.01 mg/kg. C(i) differed with species and the highest was found in dragonfly. C(s) and C(i) showed a good linear fit, and a simple equat...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang Z,Song X,Wang Q,Lu X

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual dynamics of flubendiamide in three different types of soils were investigated under laboratory condition. Flubendiamide was applied at 5 and 10 μg g(-1) for each soil and samples drawn periodically were analyzed on HPLC. The results showed that the degradation of flubendiamide in soils were followed first-ord...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Paramasivam M,Banerjee H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:Selective partition by vapor solvent sweeping, on borosilicate wool, of organochlorine pesticides from fruit and vegetable extracts in the present apparatus and with the present technique provides sufficient cleanup for subsequent electron capture detector analysis. Amounts of organochlorine pesticides from...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mestres R,Barthes F

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brinjal fruits were sprayed with recommended dose (0.001%) of cypermethrin. Effects of processing viz. washing, cooking in water, cooking in oil, microwave cooking, and grilling was studied to dislodge cypermethrin residues on brinjal. Cypermethrin residues remaining in the control and processed samples were analyzed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Walia S,Boora P,Kumari B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were investigated in the midgut and fat body of Galleria mellonella. Fourth instar larvae were exposed to 10 µg Cu/L of CuO until becoming last instar larvae, and catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione-s-transferase (GST) an...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sezer Tuncsoy B,Tuncsoy M,Gomes T,Sousa V,Teixeira MR,Bebianno MJ,Ozalp P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyethoxylated tallowamine (POEA) is a non-ionic surfactant used in many herbicide formulations to increase the ability of active ingredients to penetrate leaf cuticles. However, it has also been shown to disrupt respiratory membranes in aquatic organisms. In this study, Daphnia magna was used to examine the lethal a...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Brausch JM,Beall B,Smith PN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics in manure, soil, wastewater, and groundwater samples from the livestock and poultry farms in Xuzhou City were investigated in the present study. The concentrations of antibiotics in all matrices varied greatly among farms. Total concentrations of fluoroquinolones and macrolides were much higher than those ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gu D,Feng Q,Guo C,Hou S,Lv J,Zhang Y,Yuan S,Zhao X

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate for the first time histopathologic effects of carbaryl on the testes of adult frog, Pelophylax bedriagae. Frogs were exposed to carbaryl once by oral gavage in concentrations of 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 mg/g. After 96 h, frogs were euthanized and dissected. Histopathological changes we...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Çakıcı Ö

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the environmental toxicity of 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HOQ), an important industrial raw material found in China's major ornamental fish, Cryprinus carpio, using the acute toxicity test, hepatase activity analysis and the comet assay. The results indicated that 8-HOQ had significant acute toxicity in adult C....

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Yan S,Chen L,Dou X,Qi M,Du Q,He Q,Nan M,Chang Z,Nan P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth study and hydrocarbonoclastic potential of microorganisms isolated from aviation fuel spill sites at Inua-eyet Ikot in Ibeno, Nigeria were examined using standard microbiological methods. The results of the analysis revealed that the viable plate count of microorganisms in the polluted soil ranged from 2.2 ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Etuk CU,John RC,Ekong UE,Akpan MM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of the spatial and temporal distributions of selected heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg) in Bohai Bay, north China was examined. Surface sediment samples from 15 sites were collected and analyzed for the selected metals with atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) from the year of 1997-2007. Mean concen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhan S,Peng S,Liu C,Chang Q,Xu J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on evaluating the metal and metalloid contamination and associated risks in the two vegetables crops, coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea) treated with three water regimes, canal water, groundwater and municipal wastewater. These vegetables are widely consumed by people and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Khan ZI,Ugulu I,Ahmad K,Yasmeen S,Noorka IR,Mehmood N,Sher M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was performed in order to clarify the degree of heavy metals pollution in forest, agricultural and industrial surface soil samples in relation to pre-anthropogenic soils of Almyros region, in Central Greece. In 2004 and 2005 soil samples were collected and analysed for available (DTPA method) and to...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Golia EE,Dimirkou A,Mitsios IK

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to detect, isolate and characterize tensioactive agents with or without emulsifying activity from marine bacterial strains present in seawater and sediment samples from the Venezuelan Atlantic Front. Biosurfactants found in cell-free supernatants from all cultures presented high surface activity as the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bozo-Hurtado L,Rocha CA,Malavé R,Suárez P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalate diesters are used in personal care products, plastics, and pesticides, resulting in widespread human and wildlife exposure. Phthalate diesters leach out of these products and ultimately enter biological systems where they are quickly metabolized to phthalate monoesters and glucuronides. As such, phthalate mo...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bartsch PW,Edwards TM,Brock JW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to evaluate the microplastics (MPs) pollution of sediments from River Yongfeng. It was observed that the MPs in sediments were present with contents of 0.5-16.75 mg/kg and abundances of 5-72 items/kg, coupled by variation coefficients of 109% and 91%, respectively, indicating that the distribu...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rao Z,Niu S,Zhan N,Wang X,Song X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the potential contribution of metals to the catastrophic population decline of the White-backed Vulture, Gyps bengalensis, their concentrations in various organs was quantified. Liver, kidney, pectoral muscle, gut contents and femur bone were collected from dead birds between 1999 and 2008. These samples wer...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rajamani J,Subramanian M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00