Evaluating reptile exposure to cholinesterase-inhibiting agrochemicals by serum butyrylcholinesterase activity.

abstract：:Given the urgent need for ecologically relevant toxicity tools specific to estuarine systems, the main goal of the present study was to develop and evaluate the potential of an in situ algal assay for estuarine sediment-overlying water toxicity evaluations using the microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum immobilized in a...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Moreira SM,Guilhermino L,Ribeiro R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory experiments were carried out to analyze the first valve closure response of a freshwater bivalve (Corbicula fluminea) exposed to uranium during a 5-h period. Experiments were performed in a well-defined artificial water at two pH values, 5.5 and 6.5, with a noninvasive method of valve recording. Sensitivity...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Fournier E,Tran D,Denison F,Massabuau JC,Garnier-Laplace J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ecotoxicology and aquatic ecology, we often ignore responses of individuals and focus on average responses. However, both terrestrial and aquatic animals display consistent behavioral differences between individuals. The distribution of behavioral differences within a population contains vital information for predi...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Heuschele J,Lode T,Andersen T,Titelman J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the occurrence and concentration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) measured in game ducks (13 compounds), water, sediment, and soils (33 compounds) in waterways in Victoria, Australia. The study aimed to identify potential ecological and human health risks from measured PFAS conc...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sharp S,Sardiña P,Metzeling L,McKenzie R,Leahy P,Menkhorst P,Hinwood A

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude oils contain a mixture of hydrocarbons, including phototoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that have the ability to absorb ultraviolet (UV) light. Absorption of UV light by PAHs can substantially increase their toxicity to marine organisms. The objective of the present study was to examine the potentia...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Finch BE,Marzooghi S,Di Toro DM,Stubblefield WA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abiotic factors such as pesticides may alter the impact of a pathogen on hosts, which could have implications for host-pathogen interactions and may explain variation in disease outbreaks in nature. In the present laboratory experiment, American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) metamorphs were exposed to the amphibian chytr...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wise RS,Rumschlag SL,Boone MD

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a seasonal study of the uptake of Cd, Se(IV), and Zn by natural phytoplankton assemblages collected from two locations in Hong Kong coastal waters. Marine phytoplankton in Port Shelter was dominated by diatoms and cyanobacteria, while phytoplankton in Tolo Harbour was dominated by dinoflagellates. The nat...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wang WX,Dei RC,Hong H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last four years, significant effort has been devoted to understanding the effects that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had on contaminant distribution and redistribution in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and the surrounding Gulf Coast area. Elevated concentrations were found for inorganic contaminants (including ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Abel MT,Cobb GP,Presley SM,Ray GL,Rainwater TR,Austin GP,Cox SB,Anderson TA,Leftwich BD,Kendall RJ,Suedel BC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are emerging contaminants that have been found ubiquitously in wastewater and surface waters around the world. A major source of these compounds is incomplete metabolism in humans and subsequent excretion in human waste, resulting in discharge into surface waters by w...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Niemuth NJ,Jordan R,Crago J,Blanksma C,Johnson R,Klaper RD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) and its degradation products are important contaminants of world water systems and have effects on aquatic life. These effects are modulated by the degradation of atrazine, which depends, in part, on its reactivity with soil minerals. We have studied the deg...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Shin JY,Cheney MA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased application of nanoparticles (NPs) is increasing the risk of their release into the environment. Although many toxicity studies have been conducted, the environmental risk is difficult to estimate, because uptake mechanisms are often not determined in toxicity studies. In the present study, the authors r...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kettler K,Veltman K,van de Meent D,van Wezel A,Hendriks AJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octanol-water partition coefficients (KOW ) are widely used in fate and effects modeling of chemicals. Still, high-quality experimental KOW data are scarce, in particular for very hydrophobic chemicals. This hampers reliable assessments of several fate and effect parameters and the development and validation of new mo...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jonker MT

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study, soil samples were collected from 766 residential properties near the Tittabawassee River between Midland and Saginaw; near the Dow Chemical Facility in Midland; and, for comparison, in the other areas of Midland and Saginaw Counties and in Jackson and Calhou...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Towey TP,Chang SC,Demond A,Wright D,Barabás N,Franzblau A,Garabrant DH,Gillespie BW,Lepkowski J,Luksemburg W,Adriaens P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity and uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by earthworms were measured in soil samples collected from manufactured-gas plant sites having a wide range in PAH concentrations (170-42,000 mg/kg) and soil characteristics. Samples varied from vegetated soils to pure lampblack soot and had total orga...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kreitinger JP,Quiñones-Rivera A,Neuhauser EF,Alexander M,Hawthorne SB

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present work was to study the effect of Cd2+ exposure on metallothionein (MT) induction and on the distribution of metals (Cd, Cu, and Zn) in the terrestrial pulmonate Helix aspersa. In particular, the soluble and nonsoluble pools of the accumulated metals and their tissue distribution in uncontaminated...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hispard F,Schuler D,de Vaufleury A,Scheifler R,Badot PM,Dallinger R

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater organisms are increasingly exposed to combinations of stressors. However, because it is time-consuming and costly, research on the interaction of stressors, such as compound toxicity and global warming on vertebrates, is scarce. Studies on multigenerational effects of these combined stressors are almost non...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Philippe C,Hautekiet P,Grégoir AF,Thoré ESJ,Pinceel T,Stoks R,Brendonck L,Boeck G

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a key role in determining the environmental fate of semivolatile organic environmental contaminants. The goal of the present study was to develop a method using commercially available hardware to rapidly characterize the sorption properties of DOC in water samples. The resulting me...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ripszam M,Haglund P

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:To investigate possible relationships between polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure and infectious disease mortality in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in United Kingdom waters, summed blubber concentrations of 25 chlorobiphenyl congeners (sigma25CB) in healthy harbor porpoises that died of acute physical traum...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jepson PD,Bennett PM,Deaville R,Allchin CR,Baker JR,Law RJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms can make good bioindicators and biomarkers, offering a convenient tool to monitor metal contamination in streams that results from mine tailing sites. Biofilm metal content (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) as well as diatom diversity and the presence of teratologies (diatom abnormalities) were determined for biofilms from ri...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Leguay S,Lavoie I,Levy JL,Fortin C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the subcellular partitioning of zinc (Zn) in Daphnia magna both under acute and chronic exposures. In the acute Zn toxicity tests, the daphnids were exposed to different Zn concentrations for 48 h or to one lethal concentration (1,000 microg/L) for different durations (time to death for up to 47 h). Signif...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wang WX,Guan R

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:The lipid-lowering agents bezafibrate and clofibric acid, which occur at concentrations up to 3.1 and 1.6 microg/L, respectively, are among the most frequently found human pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment. In contrast to knowledge about their environmental occurrence, little is known about their effects in t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Weston A,Caminada D,Galicia H,Fent K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of standardized protocols for both organism culture and bioassay with ecologically relevant species is of great concern in ecotoxicology. Acartia tonsa represents an important, often dominant, member of zooplankton communities and meets all the practical criteria suggested for model species. New stand...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Gorbi G,Invidia M,Savorelli F,Faraponova O,Giacco E,Cigar M,Buttino I,Leoni T,Prato E,Lacchetti I,Sei S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have found a correlation between organophosphate (OP) pesticide exposure and declines in amphibian populations. We evaluated the hypothesis that this relationship is driven by behavioral changes in developing larvae. Specifically, we examined how exposure to a common OP pesticide, chlorpyrifos, influenc...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Widder PD,Bidwell JR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant amounts of soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were discovered at a military radar station in Saglek Bay, Labrador, Canada, in 1996. Subsequent work showed elevated PCB concentrations in local marine sediments, in the benthic-associated food web, and in some ringed seals (Pusa hispida)....

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Brown TM,Fisk AT,Helbing CC,Reimer KJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of sediment geochemistry on bioavailability of As, Cd, and Cr in deposit-feeding polychaetes. Metal phase speciation in sediments was determined with a sequential extraction scheme, and assimilation efficiencies (AEs) of ingested metals were determined by pulse-chase feeding experiments using ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Baumann Z,Fisher NS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In risk assessment of aquatic sediments, much attention is paid to the immobilizing effect of acid volatile sulfide (AVS) on trace metals. The difference of AVS and simultaneously extracted metals (SEM) gives an indication of metal availability. In floodplain sediments, where changing redox conditions occur, AVS may p...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： van Griethuysen C,Meijboom EW,Koelmans AA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution kinetics of methylmercury (CH3Hg[II]) was determined in sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) after a single dose of different CH3Hg(II)-spiked food to determine what factors influence the bioavailability, uptake, and redistribution of CH3Hg(II) to various organs of C. variegatus. The kinetics of...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Leaner JJ,Mason RP

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated the potential for dietborne metals as an important exposure pathway for metal toxicity in freshwater organisms. We conducted a study in which freshwater cladocerans (Ceriodaphnia dubia) were fed green algae (either Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata or Chlorella vulgaris) that were grown in ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kolts JM,Boese CJ,Meyer JS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00