abstract：:The present study investigated estrogenic activity and total lipid levels in maternal serum and breast milk. The study was performed with 50 mothers from Fang district of northern Thailand. Maternal serum was collected 5 times, including the second trimester, pre-delivery period, delivery period, and lactating period ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sapbamrer R,Prapamontol T,Hock B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the suitability of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) for phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils, the effect of its roots on chemical and biological properties of the rhizosphere affecting soil metal fractionation was studied. Plants were cultivated in two similar soils, with high levels o...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Martínez-Alcalá I,Walker DJ,Bernal MP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity changes in copper and diazinon were investigated in the presence of food, clay, and their mixture by using Daphnia magna. In sorption equilibrium experiments, copper was significantly attracted (>34% sorbed) to food, clay, and food-clay mixture due to their negative zeta potential, while diazinon was less sor...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Jeon J,Sung Ra J,Lee SH,Lee MJ,Yu SH,Kim SD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to assess the physiological response of male zebrafish Danio rerio to the fungicide tebuconazole and recovery in fungicide-free water. Acute toxicity tests were carried out and the median lethal concentration (LC(50)) from 24 to 96 h was calculated. The fish were exposed to a sublethal...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sancho E,Villarroel MJ,Fernández C,Andreu E,Ferrando MD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of clay content on the bioavailability of copper to the earthworm Eisenia fetida, in the laboratory for 28 days using OECD artificial soil adjusted to 5%, 20% and 40% clay. Mortality, growth, cocoon production and internal copper concentrations were assessed in worms, and total, DTPA and CaC...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Owojori OJ,Reinecke AJ,Rozanov AB

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nematodes, 10 J/m(2)/min of UV irradiation induced a mild reproductive toxicity. Pre-treatment with UV irradiation at 10 J/m(2)/min suppressed the formation of reproductive defects, and activated a noticeable reduction of percentage of population with hsp-16.2::gfp expression, an obvious elevation of superoxide dis...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang D,Xing X

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioaccumulation models predict internal contaminant concentrations (c(i)) using ecological, chemical and physiological parameters. Here we analyse the effect of uncertainties on these parameters on bioaccumulation model predictions. Simultaneously considering the uncertainties on all these parameters in a bioaccumulat...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： De Laender F,Van Oevelen D,Middelburg JJ,Soetaert K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing parthenogenetic eggs of Daphnia magna were used as a test-system to evaluate the effect of a number of low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) of 75microT density. Two blocks of EMF acting frequencies were found in the studied series-45, 110, and 175Hz, and 435 and 500Hz. Developing parthenogenetic eggs ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Krylov VV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is an environmental contaminant, while acetaminophen is an extensively used nonsteroidal analgesic-antipyretic drug. We evaluated whether subacute co-exposure to arsenic and acetaminophen would produce more toxicity than that caused by exposure to either of the xenobiotics in rats. Toxicity was evaluated throu...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Manimaran A,Sarkar SN,Sankar P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) and other heavy metal profiles, namely, lead (Pb), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), and selenium (Se) were investigated in maternal and umbilical cord (cord) red blood cells (RBCs) at parturition in Japanese population. Correlation coefficients of Hg, Pb, As, Cd, and Se between maternal and cord RBCs were 0.91...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sakamoto M,Murata K,Kubota M,Nakai K,Satoh H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors influencing fate of avermectins (abamectin, doramectin) in faeces of treated sheep were investigated under different experimental conditions. In the laboratory, concentrations of both avermectins were declined in homogenised faeces of treated animals until day 14 of exposure, regardless of experimental conditi...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Virant Celestina T,Kolar L,Gobec I,Kuzner J,Flajs VC,Pogacnik M,Erzen NK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims to support decisions on whether or not to perform an extra toxicity test in order to improve environmental quality standards (EQSs). The impact of an additional ecotoxicity test was analyzed by predicting new ecotoxicity values with three different estimation methods and adding them to existing ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Henning-de Jong I,Ragas AM,Hendriks HW,Huijbregts MA,Posthuma L,Wintersen A,Jan Hendriks A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, a cultivable, Gram-positive, solvent-resistant bacterium was isolated from vermicomposted olive wastes (VOW). The highest 16S rRNA sequence similarity (99%) was found in Brevibacillus brevis. The genome of the isolate, selected for trichloroethylene (TCE)-tolerance, contained a nucleotide sequence encodi...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Moreno B,Vivas A,Nogales R,Benitez E

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims at assessing the current situation of the heavy metal contaminated River Lot (SW France). Several fish species were captured in October 1987 and 2007 at three sampling sites. The concentration of copper, zinc, cadmium and lead were quantified in fish muscle and liver as well as in environmental ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Shinn C,Dauba F,Grenouillet G,Guenard G,Lek S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides are the main environmental factor associated with the etiology of human neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that the treatment of rats with low doses of dimethoate, zineb or glyphosate alone or in combination induces oxidative stress (OS) in li...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Astiz M,de Alaniz MJ,Marra CA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro comet assay with the permanent fish cell line RTL-W1 and the in situ micronucleus assay using erythrocytes from indigenous tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) were used to detect genotoxicity in Tietê River sediments (São Paulo, Brazil). Either test was successful in identifying site-specific differences in g...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Rocha PS,Luvizotto GL,Kosmehl T,Böttcher M,Storch V,Braunbeck T,Hollert H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research assesses the effects of nitrite pulses and post-exposure periods after nitrite exposures on the survival of the freshwater amphipod Eulimnogammarus toletanus. A toxicity bioassay was performed using three different nitrite concentrations (0.5, 5.0 and 10.0 mg/L NO(2)-N), four pulse exposures (1, 8, 24 an...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Alonso A,Camargo JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hg and As resistance and bioaccumulation were studied in hydroponically grown Pistacia lentiscus and Tamarix gallica plants. Both elements caused growth inhibition in roots and shoots, with mercury showing greater phytotoxicity than arsenic. Accumulation of both elements by plants increased in response to element supp...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Moreno-Jiménez E,Esteban E,Carpena-Ruiz RO,Peñalosa JM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the antioxidant responses of Daphnia magna following exposure to different concentrations of the ionic liquid (IL) 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide and the 50% LC(50) concentrations of methylimidazolium bromide ILs with different alkyl-chain lengths. Activities of antioxidant defense enzymes (su...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Yu M,Wang SH,Luo YR,Han YW,Li XY,Zhang BJ,Wang JJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivities of a wildlife species, deer mice, to oxidants were evaluated. A single dose (1589 mg/kg body weight by intraperitoneal injection) of carbon tetrachloride, a typical hepatotoxicant, caused changes in GCL activity and GSH content in multiple organs of deer mice. Hepatic GCL activity and GSH content were de...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wu H,McBride TJ,Isanhart JP,Cox SB,Hooper MJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four toxicity bioassays were used for the biological characterisation of nine hazardous wastes and extracts. This evaluation included conventional and novel bioassays, and combined in vivo and in vitro tests in order to facilitate the effect characterisation. This test battery incorporated different relevant taxonomic...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Pablos MV,Fernández C,del Mar Babín M,María Navas J,Carbonell G,Martini F,García-Hortigüela P,Vicente Tarazona J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardio-respiratory function, oxidative stress and fish antioxidants were analyzed in juvenile Nile tilapia exposed for 96 h to a sublethal trichlorfon (TRC-Neguvon, Bayer) concentration of 0.5 mg L(-1). The exposure to TRC induced oxidative stress in the heart, as manifested by the glutathione S-transferase deplet...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Thomaz JM,Martins ND,Monteiro DA,Rantin FT,Kalinin AL

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to elucidate the seasonal and spatial regularity of the properties of metallothioneins (MT) from the liver and gills of carp Cyprinus carpio L. in rural (R) and industrial (I) sites in Western Ukraine. The MT is represented by two chromatographic forms, the features of which exhibit se...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Falfushynska HI,Stoliar OB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide that is used in trees to control several invasive, wood-boring insect pests in North America. Applications to deciduous trees result in foliar concentrations of imidacloprid that could pose a risk of harm to non-target decomposer invertebrates when autumn-shed leaves fall to fore...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kreutzweiser DP,Thompson DG,Scarr TA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarises the physicochemical, biodegradation and acute aquatic ecotoxicity properties of long chain aliphatic alcohols. Properties of pure compounds are shown to follow somewhat predictable trends, which are amenable to estimation by quantitative structure-activity relationships ((Q)SARs). This allows pre...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Fisk PR,Wildey RJ,Girling AE,Sanderson H,Belanger SE,Veenstra G,Nielsen A,Kasai Y,Willing A,Dyer SD,Stanton K

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blenny Parablennius sanguinolentus was selected as a useful bioindicator of environmental pollution. Chemical parameters in water and sediments from three different sampling sites along the Sicilian Ionian coast were determined and metal concentrations in fish muscle were measured. DNA fragmentation and oxidation ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Tigano C,Tomasello B,Pulvirenti V,Ferrito V,Copat C,Carpinteri G,Mollica E,Sciacca S,Renis M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of sewage sludge to agricultural lands is a current practice in EU. European legislation permits its use when concentrations of metals in soil do not increase above the maximum permissible limits. In order to assess the fate and the effects on representative soil organisms of sewage sludge amendments on ag...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Carbonell G,Pro J,Gómez N,Babín MM,Fernández C,Alonso E,Tarazona JV

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare environmental quality in two sites of the river in Western Ukraine, rural (R) and industrial (I) during three seasons via a set of biochemical markers in carp Cyprinus carpio L. Upon comparing the values of the I-site with those of the R-site, we found that Mn- and Cu, Zn-superoxid...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Falfushynska HI,Stolyar OB

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The copper sensitivity of 10 wild ornamental fish from Rio Negro, an ion-poor river in the Amazon, was analyzed in the absence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). No mortality was observed at concentrations up to 700mug Cul(-1) for two species exposed to CuCl(2).2H(2)O dissolved in standard EPA-USA water. Copper sensit...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Duarte RM,Menezes AC,da Silveira Rodrigues L,de Almeida-Val VM,Val AL

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of an optimization study on the toxicity of 91 aliphatic and aromatic compounds as well as a small subset of pesticides to algae Chlorella vulgaris, which was accomplished by using quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). The linear (HM) and the nonlinear method radial basi...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Xia B,Liu K,Gong Z,Zheng B,Zhang X,Fan B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of tank-mix adjuvants on pesticide toxicity remains largely unknown. Agral 90, a nonylphenol polyethoxylated tank-mix adjuvant, has been used with diquat (bipyridylium herbicide) and fomesafen (diphenyl-ether herbicide) in aquatic indoor microcosms in order to compare the toxicity of the single compounds...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gorzerino C,Quemeneur A,Hillenweck A,Baradat M,Delous G,Ollitrault M,Azam D,Caquet T,Lagadic L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hatchery-reared juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) were exposed for 3 weeks, under laboratory conditions, to inter-tidal sediments collected from polluted sites in Cork Harbour (Whitegate and Agahda) and a reference site at Ballymacoda Co., Cork, Ireland. The potential of the sediment exposure to induce cytochr...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kilemade M,Hartl MG,O'Halloran J,O'Brien NM,Sheehan D,Mothersill C,van Pelt FN

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the subacute toxicity of a polychlorinated naphthalene (PCN) mixture and its effect on cytochrome P-450 levels in rats. The animals were administered PCNs intragastrically in repeated daily doses of 1, 10, and 100 mg/kg. The animals were dissected after 7, 14, or 21 doses. Doses...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kilanowicz A,Skrzypinska-Gawrysiak M,Sapota A,Galoch A,Daragó A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the standard models of concentration addition and independent action predict overall toxicity of multicomponent mixtures reasonably, interactions may limit the predictive capability when a few compounds dominate a mixture. This study was conducted to test if statistically significant systematic deviations from c...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gomez-Eyles JL,Svendsen C,Lister L,Martin H,Hodson ME,Spurgeon DJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturing compost heaps normally attaining temperatures ranging from 55 to 65 degrees C is generally regarded to conform to recommended biological risks and sanitation standards for composts stipulated by either EU or US-EPA. Composted products derived from animal sources are further required by EU biohazard safety reg...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Moore JE,Watabe M,Stewart A,Cherie Millar B,Rao JR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many unexplained fish-kills in British waters are considered microbial in origin and a large proportion of field sites contains elevated concentrations of filamentous actinobacteria. The present study has shown that a strain of Streptomyces griseus, isolated from field sites, elicits pathological changes to the gills ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lewis JW,Morley NJ,Drinkall J,Jamieson BJ,Wright R,Parry JD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein (MT) gene expression was studied in different tissues, development stages and gender types of the mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). MT expression was also studied in a time-series experiment after exposure to trace metals and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The brain showed the highe...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Rhee JS,Raisuddin S,Hwang DS,Lee KW,Kim IC,Lee JS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and defense response in leaves of tomato seedlings exposed to extraneous lead (Pb) at 0-500 mg kg(-1) soil for nearly 2 months were investigated. Superoxide radical (O(2)(-)) was quantified by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Results showed that levels of O(2)(-), malondialdehyde (MDA), carbonyl...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang C,Wang X,Tian Y,Xue Y,Xu X,Sui Y,Yu H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is playing an increasing role in the society, but very little is known about the environmental toxicity of nanotechnological products. Few previous studies have been published with regard to the effect of nanoparticles on soil organisms. The present paper deals with the toxicity of carbon double-walled ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Scott-Fordsmand JJ,Krogh PH,Schaefer M,Johansen A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hazard classification based on selected microbiotests was proposed to assess and compare the toxicity of rivers including surface-water, sediment and soil from floodplains. No direct relationship between the classification of pollution for surface-water based on physical-chemical parameters and proposed acute ha...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mankiewicz-Boczek J,Nałęcz-Jawecki G,Drobniewska A,Kaza M,Sumorok B,Izydorczyk K,Zalewski M,Sawicki J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00