Bioaccumulation of metals in plants, arthropods, and mice at a seasonal wetland.

abstract：:We quantified the uncertainty due to biota-related parameters in estimated bioaccumulation factors (BAFs) of persistent organic pollutants for fish through Monte Carlo simulations. For this purpose, the bioaccumulation model OMEGA (Optimal Modeling for EcotoxicoloGical Applications) was parameterized based on data fro...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hauck M,Hendriks HW,Huijbregts MA,Ragas AM,van de Meent D,Hendriks AJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:A selective pressurized liquid extraction technique was developed for the simultaneous extraction of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs) from contaminated sediments. The final method incorporated cleanup adsorbents (Florisil, alumina, and silica...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Aguilar L,Williams ES,Brooks BW,Usenko S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies concerning the impact of nanomaterials, especially fullerene (C(60) ), in fresh water environments and their effects on the physiology of aquatic organisms are still scarce and conflicting. We aimed to assess in vitro effects of fullerene in brain and gill homogenates of carp Cyprinus carpio, evaluating redox ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ferreira JL,Barros DM,Geracitano LA,Fillmann G,Fossa CE,de Almeida EA,de Castro Prado M,Neves BR,Pinheiro MV,Monserrat JM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater mussels are among the most sensitive aquatic organisms to many contaminants and have complex life-cycles that include several distinct life stages with unique contaminant exposure pathways. Standard acute (24-96 h) and chronic (28 d) toxicity tests with free larva (glochidia) and juvenile mussels are effect...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hazelton PD,Cope WG,Pandolfo TJ,Mosher S,Strynar MJ,Barnhart MC,Bringolf RB

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fibers as a dose metric for toxicity testing was evaluated for hydrophobic pesticides to the midge Chironomus dilutus and the amphipod Hyalella azteca. Test compounds included p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,p'-DDT), p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (p,p'-DDD), p,p'...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ding Y,Landrum PF,You J,Harwood AD,Lydy MJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the production and applications of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) increase, it is essential to characterize fate and effects in environmental systems. Nanosilver materials may settle from suspension; therefore, the authors' objective was to utilize environmentally relevant bioassays and study the impact, bioaccumulat...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Coleman JG,Kennedy AJ,Bednar AJ,Ranville JF,Laird JG,Harmon AR,Hayes CA,Gray EP,Higgins CP,Lotufo G,Steevens JA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internalized speciation of lead in roots and leaves of Sesbania drummondii, a lead hyperaccumulator, grown in lead nitrate solution was studied using x-ray absorption near-edge structure and extended x-ray absorption fine structure. Lead was predominantly present as lead acetate in both plant tissues. The other do...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sharma NC,Gardea-Torresdey JL,Parsons J,Sahi SV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of metal release from the solid phase to solution was measured on two sets of 14 freshly contaminated soils with diverse properties. From measurements of metal concentrations in extracted soil pore water, the amount accumulated from the soil by diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) devices, and the distr...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Zhang H,Davison W,Tye AM,Crout NM,Young SD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of forward and reverse heteronuclear ((19)F/(1)H) saturation transfer difference (STD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic techniques were applied to characterize the noncovalent interactions between perfluorinated aromatic xenobiotics and dissolved humic acid. These NMR techniques produce det...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Longstaffe JG,Simpson AJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Induction of the cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) enzyme system in fish is a common biomarker of exposure to aromatic hydrocarbons. Induction of CYP1A can be measured at a number of steps in the transcription-translation-functional protein pathway using a variety of techniques. The present study examined the range of these m...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Oris JT,Roberts AP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An urgent need exists to identify suitable tropical marine species for use in the development of sensitive and reliable test methods for routine laboratory ecotoxicological testing. Corals are a group of organisms not represented in routine ecotoxicology due to inherent difficulties in laboratory husbandry, and sea an...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Howe PL,Reichelt-Brushett AJ,Clark MW

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson River, USA, are resistant to cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) mRNA induction and early life stage toxicities induced by coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins but not polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. We sought to determine if basal expression or inducibili...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Roy NK,Courtenay SC,Chambers RC,Wirgin II

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:The presence and accumulation of persistent contaminants at high latitudes from long-range transport is an important environmental issue. Atmospheric transport has been identified as the source of pollutants in several arctic ecosystems and has the potential to severely impact high-latitude populations. Elevated level...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Rocque DA,Winker K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS) can be found in high concentrations in sewage sludge and, hence, may enter the soil compartment as a result of sludge application. Here, LAS may pose a risk for soil-dwelling organisms. In the present probabilistic risk assessment, statistical extrapolation has been used to assess ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jensen J,Løkke H,Holmstrup M,Krogh PH,Elsgaard L

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated if the element profiles in hair and nails of children from the Lake Victoria region in Kenya reflect uptake from food and the environment. To this purpose, the element concentrations in hair and nails were related to element concentrations measured in food items, water, and soil. The highes...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Oyoo-Okoth E,Admiraal W,Osano O,Kraak MH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used 5 species of periphytic algae to conduct toxicity assays of 20 herbicides. The 5 tested species represent riverine primary producers most likely to be affected by herbicides. A fluorescence microplate toxicity assay was used as an efficient and economical high-throughput assay. Toxicity characteristic...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Nagai T,Taya K,Yoda I

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is the most extensively used herbicide in the United States. Part-per-million concentrations of atrazine have been reported in agricultural runoff. It is detectable in surface waters and precipitation throughout the year, and it has been found in groundwater sources of drinking water. Recent studies indicate ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bringolf RB,Belden JB,Summerfelt RC

更新日期：2004-04-01 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 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：:Standard ecotoxicity tests are conducted under constant and favorable experimental conditions. In natural communities, however, the toxicity of chemicals may be influenced by abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Firstly, the authors examined the influence of temperature and total food concentration on the nature ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hochmuth JD,Janssen CR,De Schamphelaere KA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim to refine water analysis in fish bioconcentration studies, automated solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was used as an alternative approach to conventional solvent extraction (liquid-liquid extraction [LLE]) for the extraction of 3 hydrophobic organic chemicals (HOCs; log KOW 5.5-7.8) from flow-through st...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Böhm L,Düring RA,Bruckert HJ,Schlechtriem C

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) terrestrial plant test is often used for the ecological risk assessment of contaminated land. However, its origins in plant protection product testing mean that the species recommended in the OECD guidelines are unlikely to occur on contaminated land. S...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sinnett DE,Lawrence VK,Hutchings TR,Hodson ME

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants used in a variety of consumer products. The solid vapor pressures of BDE 15 and BDE 209 were determined by using the Knudsen effusion method, and the values measured extrapolated to 298.15 K are 3.12 × 10(-3) and 9.02 × 10(-13) Pa, respectively. The enthalpie...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Fu J,Suuberg EM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors performed a toxicity test with ciprofloxacin in fertilized eggs of common carp according to guideline 210 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The tested concentrations were 1 μg L(-1) , 100 μg L(-1) , 500 μg L(-1) , 1000 μg L(-1) , and 3000 μg L(-1) . Accelerated hatching was fou...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Zivna D,Plhalova L,Chromcova L,Blahova J,Prokes M,Skoric M,Marsalek P,Praskova E,Stepanova S,Svobodova Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American toad (Bufo americanus) tadpoles were exposed to cadmium from shortly after hatching through metamorphosis. Cadmium at 540 microg/L decreased percentage survival and metamorphosis; 5 and 54 microg/L increased growth relative to controls. Amphibians exposed to cadmium as tadpoles may be less tolerant of natural...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： James SM,Little EE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular energy allocation (CEA) methodology was used to assess the adverse effects of toxic stress on the energy budget of test organisms. This biochemical assay is quantified by determining changes in the available energy reserves, Ea (total carbohydrate, protein, and lipid content) and the energy consumption, E...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： De Coen WM,Janssen CR

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00