abstract：:Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are persistent organic pollutants ubiquitously distributed in the environment and human populations. Here we report PFC concentrations in the residents of Wenzhou City, which is characterized as the 'Footwear Capital' of China. Specifically, fifty serum samples collected from workers in...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zhang W,Lin Z,Hu M,Wang X,Lian Q,Lin K,Dong Q,Huang C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus, commonly known as Mutton bird) is a migratory wild seabird, annually harvested for food by certain native groups in New Zealand and Australia and in many parts of the world. The concentrations of 22 elements and several organochlorine pesticides [2,2-bis(chlorophenyl)-1,1,1-tric...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： El-Din Bekhit A,Al-Amer S,Gooneratne R,Mason SL,Osman KA,Clucas L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecotoxicological studies aim to assess the potential environmental risks of various products. This implies the use of various biological models and tests on live animals. In case of handling fish and mammals, ethical rules have to be respected. The use of anaesthesia is considered to be the best way to ensure animal w...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Renault S,Daverat F,Pierron F,Gonzalez P,Dufour S,Lanceleur L,Schäfer J,Baudrimont M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A residue analytical method for the determination of bromoxynil in soil and maize was developed using high performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector (HPLC-DAD) and high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). The residual level and dissipation rate of bromoxynil in th...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Chen XX,Li WM,Wu Q,Zhi YN,Han LJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory guidelines for long term testing to assess the toxicity of xenobiotic compounds such as bisphenol A (BPA) with fish have focused on survival, growth, and development in early life stages. Early life stages are critical windows of exposure, but do not address later phases in the life cycle, such as reproduct...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Staples CA,Tilghman Hall A,Friederich U,Caspers N,Klecka GM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have emerged as a group of potential environmental contaminants of concern. PPCPs in soil may enter terrestrial food webs via plant uptake. We evaluated uptake of 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and triclosan in bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) grown in sand and soil. The ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Karnjanapiboonwong A,Chase DA,Cañas JE,Jackson WA,Maul JD,Morse AN,Anderson TA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of Nilaparvata lugens brain cells was damaged by treatment at different fipronil concentrations. The cell showed swollen mitochondria and vacuolization, but no mitochondrial cristae. Rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) fragmentation and degranulation were seen. The dilatation of endoplasmic reticulum ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ling S,Zhang R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissipation and residual levels of dimethomorph in pepper and soil under field conditions were determined by gas chromatography with an electron capture detector (GC-ECD). The dissipation rates of dimethomorph were described using first-order kinetics and its half-life ranged from 1.7 to 3.8 days in pepper and 11....

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liang H,Li L,Li W,Wu Y,Zhou Z,Liu F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:São Paulo state (Brazil) has one of the most overpopulated coastal zones in South America, where previous studies have already detected sediment and water contamination. However, biological-based monitoring considering signals of xenobiotic exposure and effects are scarce. The present study employed a battery of bioma...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Pereira CD,Martin-Díaz ML,Zanette J,Cesar A,Choueri RB,Abessa DM,Catharino MG,Vasconcellos MB,Bainy AC,de Sousa EC,Del Valls TA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic linear modeling (DLM) analysis was performed to identify the long-term temporal trends of two toxic components of the technical chlordane pesticide, α- and γ-chlordane, in skinless-boneless muscle tissues of a number of sport fish species in Lake Erie. Our analysis considers the fish length as a covariate of t...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ekram Azim M,Letchumanan M,Abu Rayash A,Shimoda Y,Bhavsar SP,Arhonditsis GB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, effect of cadmium chloride (25 μg/l) on oogenesis of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii was studied. In vivo experiments were performed with both intact and eyestalk ablated prawns. The intact, cadmium-exposed prawns exhibited decrease in Gonado Somatic Index (GSI) and ovarian developme...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Revathi P,Vasanthi LA,Munuswamy N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the extent of DNA damage induced by direct and indirect mutagens by cellular and acellular comet assays in two plant systems, Nicotiana tabacum (wild type tobacco) and Allium cepa (common onion). The objectives of this study were: (1) to generate dose-response curves for DNA migration values from roo...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Bandyopadhyay A,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterizes the effects of copper (Cu) on Florida apple snails (Pomacea paludosa) and mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis) using a replicated outdoor microcosm design. Soils used in this study were collected from two Cu-enriched citrus agricultural sites in South Florida (Agler property (AGLR) in St. Lucie Co...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Hoang TC,Pryor RL,Rand GM,Frakes RA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile Atlantic cod were exposed to either the water-accommodated fraction (WAF) or the chemically enhanced water-accommodated fraction (CEWAF) of Mediterranean South American (MESA), a medium grade crude oil at three different temperatures. Two concentrations of each mixture were tested, 0.2% and 1.0% (v/v) at 2, 7...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lyons MC,Wong DK,Mulder I,Lee K,Burridge LE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of metal-metal interactions on uptake, accumulation, plasma transport and chronic toxicity of dietary Cu, Cd and Zn in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) was explored. Juvenile rainbow trout were fed diets supplemented with (μg/g) 500 Cu, 1000 Zn and 500 Cd singly and as a ternary mixture at 2.5% body w...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kamunde C,MacPhail R

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity to the locally dominant amphipod Hyalella curvispina was assessed in a first-order stream running through a cultivated farm. Cypermethrin, chlorpyrifos, endosulfan and glyphosate were sprayed throughout the studied period. Toxicity was assayed under controlled laboratory conditions with runoff and stream wate...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mugni H,Ronco A,Bonetto C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) concentrations were determined in human urine and hair samples from Gouxi (GX, n=25) and Laowuchang (LWC, n=18), Tongren, Guizhou, China, to evaluate human exposure from artisanal Hg mining. Geometric means of urinary Hg (U-Hg) were 216 and 560 μg g(-1) Creatinine (μg g(-1) Cr) for artisanal mining worker...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Li P,Feng X,Shang L,Qiu G,Meng B,Zhang H,Guo Y,Liang P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the first step toward parameterization of a chronic lead (Pb) biotic ligand model (BLM) for Ceriodaphnia dubia, 7-d toxicity tests were performed in waters modified to evaluate the influences of hardness, DOM (as Suwannee River NOM and Aldrich humic acid (HA)), pH (buffered with 4 mM MOPS) and alkalinity on the chr...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mager EM,Brix KV,Gerdes RM,Ryan AC,Grosell M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biomonitoring technique with terrestrial moss transplants (50 sampling sites in a regular grid) was used in an area of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, close to an oil refinery and to an area of dense road traffic for a period of 2 months. The concentration of metals and metalloids (As, Cd, Hg, Ni, Pb and V) and ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ares Á,Fernández JÁ,Aboal JR,Carballeira A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly proposed three-dimensional model for the effects of heavy metals on the growth of batch cultures of algae that allows the estimation of the no detected toxic effect concentration (NDEC) is presented. Two batch assays with exposure to copper were investigated in situ. As an endpoint in the in situ studies of ec...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang C,Wang X,Su R,Liang S,Yang S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work evaluated the delayed effects of mercury and the effectiveness of zinc in preventing such effects. Pups were pre-treated with 1 daily dose of ZnCl(2) (27 mg/kg/day, by subcutaneous injections) from 3rd to 7th postnatal day and received 1 daily dose of 5 mg/kg of HgCl(2), for 5 subsequent days (8-12 days old)...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Franciscato C,Moraes-Silva L,Duarte FA,Oliveira CS,Ineu RP,Flores EM,Dressler VL,Peixoto NC,Pereira ME

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and analogs, hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB), were determined in 8 fish species collected during October and November 2007 from the largest Iranian wetland, ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Davodi M,Esmaili-Sari A,Bahramifarr N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity tests with aquatic organisms constitute an effective tool in the evaluation, prediction and detection of the potential effect of pollutants from environmental samples in living organisms. Vinasse, a highly colored effluent, is a sub-product rich in nutrients, mainly organic matter, with high pollutant potenti...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ferreira LF,Aguiar MM,Messias TG,Pompeu GB,Lopez AM,Silva DP,Monteiro RT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living freshwater cyanobacteria contain BMAA in both free cellular and protein-associated forms. Free BMAA released on bloom collapse or during cellular turnover creates a potential source of the non-proteinogenic amino acid for bioaccumulation and biomagnification in aquatic ecosystems. Uptake of free amino acid...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Esterhuizen M,Pflugmacher S,Downing TG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The likely protective effects of nitric oxide (NO) against ammonium toxicity were investigated in the submerged macrophyte Hydrilla verticillata. The plants were subjected to ammonium stress (3mM ammonium chloride) in the presence of sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 10 μM), an NO donor. Treatment with SNP significantly incr...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang C,Zhang SH,Li W,Wang PF,Li L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of (Rac)-metolachlor and (S)-metolachlor on the avoidance behavior, bodyweight change and in vivo enzyme activity of earthworms (Eisenia foetida) were determined and compared in this study. The effects of (Rac)-metolachlor on the enzyme activities of E. foetida and bodyweight were more significant than tho...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Xu D,Wen Y,Wang K

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atlantic salmon smolts were exposed to three doses of the fungicide azoxystrobin for 4 days, and physiological blood parameters and transcriptional effects in liver and muscle were evaluated in search for potential negative effects. Azoxystrobin exposure mediated up-regulation of catalase, MAPK1 and IGFBP1 in liver ti...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Olsvik PA,Kroglund F,Finstad B,Kristensen T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present work was to examine the inter-relationship between elements in human hair depending on gender. In the whole population, the following groups of correlated elements were identified: alkaline earth metals (Ba, Ca, Mg, Sr), major microelements (Cu, Mn, Si, Zn) and La, Ti. In the subpopulation of ma...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Chojnacka K,Michalak I,Zielińska A,Górecka H,Górecki H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizospheric soils of three tested legume crops: broad beans (Vicia faba), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and pea (Pisum sativum), and two nonlegume crops: cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and tomato, (Lycopersicon esculentum) contained considerable numbers (the magnitude of 10(5)g(-1) soil) of bacteria with the combined po...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sorkhoh NA,Ali N,Al-Awadhi H,Dashti N,Al-Mailem DM,Eliyas M,Radwan SS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test the sensitivity of computerized sperm motility analysis in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus as the endpoint in toxicity bioassays. The tested matrices were pore water samples collected in an agriculture-impacted Mediterranean lagoon, Lake Varano (Italy). Two standardized bioassays...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Fabbrocini A,Di Stasio M,D'Adamo R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 602 seafood samples, including fish, shrimps, crabs and molluscs, were analyzed for a suite of persistent halogenated compounds. The residual levels of DDTs (sum of o,p'- and p,p'-DDT, DDD, and DDE) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) varied significantly among different species, and ranged from non-...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Guo J,Wu F,Shen R,Zeng EY

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of high molecular weight (HMW) lignin derivatives possessing varied chemical properties were screened for their biological effects in order to obtain more information on the possible structural features of HMW lignin-related effects. The studied compounds were both commercial and in-house extracted lignin der...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Pessala P,Schultz E,Kukkola J,Nakari T,Knuutinen J,Herve S,Paasivirta J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the chronic waterborne and dietary exposure of silver (Ag) and cadmium (Cd) to the abalone Haliotis diversicolor using various endpoints such as growth and feeding rates, metal body burden, subcellular distribution, and metallothionein (MT) concentration over a period of 7 weeks of exposure....

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Huang X,Guo F,Ke C,Wang WX

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the apoptosis and DNA damage inducing potential of chlorpyrifos (CP) in Drosophila melanogaster. Third instar larvae of Drosophila were treated with different concentrations of CP (0.015-15.0 microg/L) for 2-48 h. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, oxidative stress markers, DNA da...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gupta SC,Mishra M,Sharma A,Deepak Balaji TG,Kumar R,Mishra RK,Chowdhuri DK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the reproductive toxicity of sublethal cadmium on marine polychaetes, Perinereis nuntia sandworms were exposed to cadmium via artificially contaminated seawater. Cadmium influence on sexual maturation, egg laying, fertilization, zygote hatching and vitellogenin expression levels were analyzed. Res...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zheng S,Chen B,Wang Z,Qiu X,Yu X,Freestone D,Liu Z,Huang H,Yu W,Xu X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungsten is a widely used transition metal that has not been thoroughly investigated with regards to its ecotoxicological effects. Tungsten anions polymerize in environmental systems as well as under physiological conditions in living organisms. These polymerization/condensation reactions result in the development of ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Strigul N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wide application of rare earth elements (REEs) has led to the accumulation of REEs in soil and plant. Thereby, the effect of Tb(3+) on the contents of cytosolic nutrient elements in horseradish was investigated with the synchronous detection technique of scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive X-ray spe...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang L,Zhou Q,Huang X

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal object of the current study was to estimate total arsenic and its inorganic speciation in different origins of surface water (n=480) and groundwater (n=240) of Sindh, Pakistan. This study provided a description based on the evaluation of physico-chemical parameters of collected water samples and possible...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ahmed Baig J,Gul Kazi T,Qadir Shah A,Abbas Kandhro G,Imran Afridi H,Balal Arain M,Khan Jamali M,Jalbani N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coking wastewater induces severe environmental problems in China, however, its toxicity has not been well known. In the present study, the genotoxicity of coking wastewater was studied using Vicia faba and Hordeum vulgare root tip cytogenetic bioassays. Results show that the tested coking wastewater decreased the ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Dong Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water pollution has become a growing threat to human society and natural ecosystems in recent decades, increasing the need to better understand the spatial and temporal variabilities of pollutants within aquatic systems. This study sampled water quality at 12 sampling sites from October 2006 to August 2008 in the Jins...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Bu H,Tan X,Li S,Zhang Q

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00