abstract：:Effluent from tannery, electroplating and electronic industries contain chromium which is highly toxic. This paper reports isolation of chromium tolerant microorganisms from solid waste as well as liquid effluent of an electroplating industry. Nine isolates were obtained that can tolerate chromium concentration up to ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mishra S,Doble M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to experimentally measure the assimilation efficiency of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in a warm-water, benthic-feeding fish species, the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Catfish were exposed to (14)C-radiolabeled HCB in catfish food over a 28-day exposure period, followed by a 14-day clearance...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Woodburn KB,Marino TA,McClymont EL,Rick DL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the preliminary characterization of a bioassay for testing the antimicrobial activity of amphibian skin peptides against the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Peptide secretions from Xenopus laevis were induced by subcutaneous injections of norepinephrine. Partially purified secreti...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gibble RE,Rollins-Smith L,Baer KN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with the adsorption of phenol on carbon-rich black gram husk (BGH), green gram husk (GGH), and rice husk (RH). All these agro-wastes were collected from the local mills and physico-chemical treatments were carried out to improve their adsorption capacity. Batch studies were performed to evaluat...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Srihari V,Das A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estuarine sediment contamination is a growing significant ecological issue in New Zealand. Methods of assessing toxicity and ecological impacts in a cost effective way are currently limited. Further to that is a need to develop bioassays that generate data quickly and cost effectively and have ecological relevance to ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Hack LA,Tremblay LA,Wratten SD,Forrester G,Keesing V

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint effects of temperature and oxygen concentrations for the results of sediment toxicity tests were studied at 10 and 20 degrees C with 40% and 80% dissolved oxygen (DO) saturation. Growth, feeding rate, and reproduction of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaete) and growth, emergence, and survival of Chironomus ripar...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Airas S,Leppänen M,Kukkonen JV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Junction Creek in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada receives effluent from three metal mining effluents (MMEs), as well as urban run-off and municipal sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges. The present study examined organismal and sub-organismal end-points in prespawning fathead minnow (FHM; Pimephales promelas) and creek c...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Weber LP,Dubé MG,Rickwood CJ,Driedger K,Portt C,Brereton C,Janz DM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and chemical species on arsenic accumulation in aquatic floating macrophyte Spirodela polyrhiza L. (duckweed) was investigated. The uptake of inorganic arsenic species (arsenate; As(V) and arsenite; As(III)) into the plant tissue and their adsorption on iron plaq...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Rahman MA,Hasegawa H,Ueda K,Maki T,Rahman MM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminium (Al) was evaluated for induction of oxidative stress and DNA damage employing the growing roots of Allium cepa L. as the assay system. Intact roots of A. cepa were treated with different concentrations, 0, 1, 10, 50, 100, or 200 microM of aluminium chloride, at pH 4.5 for 4 h (or 2 h for comet assay) at room...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Achary VM,Jena S,Panda KK,Panda BB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the insecticidal Cry1Ab protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) on the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, were studied with soil from experimental fields cultivated with transgenic Bt corn (MON810) and with trypsinized Cry1Ab protein expressed in Escherichia coli. The content of Cry1Ab protein was above...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Höss S,Arndt M,Baumgarte S,Tebbe CC,Nguyen HT,Jehle JA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahydrofuran is an important solvent with wide usage in industry and laboratory research work. However, little information was known about the influence and fate of tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the environments. Several attempts have failed to enrich microorganisms in activated sludge to degrade THF. Effects of THF on ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lv Z,Yao Y,Lv Z,Min H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of mutagenic pollution in natural environment is difficult as there are thousands of known chemical mutagens, and they have mutagenic effects usually at very low concentrations. Plants are able to accumulate various substances, including mutagens, in their tissues. Here, we demonstrate that rapid detection o...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Podgórska B,Królicka A,Lojkowska E,Wegrzyn G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes including superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) and in the content of soluble protein (SP) in Nereis diversicolor exposed to cadmium (Cd) and petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) were investigated under a laboratory condition. The results indicated that SOD activity in...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sun FH,Zhou QX

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a clinical survey on East Greenland male sledge dogs (Canis familiaris), one dog exhibited malformation of the external genital organs. The clinically in situ examination of the sledge dog revealed a rare congenital malformation of the urethra and penis corresponding to severe perineal and penile hypospadias. The t...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sonne C,Dietz R,Born EW,Leifsson PS,Andersen S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur mustard (mustard gas) is an alkylating agent used widely against Iranians during the 8-year Iraq-Iran war. This agent causes various late-occurring respiratory, skin and eye complications. A 37-year-old Iranian man exposed to the agent in vapor form 16 years prior to the date of this writing was given a clinica...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Emadi SN,Hosseini-Khalili A,Soroush MR,Davoodi SM,Aghamiri SS

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living bank voles have been shown to be more sensitive to cadmium (Cd) toxicity than the rodents exposed to Cd under laboratory conditions. The present study was designed to find out whether polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), common environmental co-contaminants, increase susceptibility to Cd toxicity through inhi...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Włostowski T,Krasowska A,Bonda E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of 17alpha-ethinylestradiol (EE) on phytoplankton were investigated in a lentic freshwater microcosm study. Treatment with EE caused a shift in the species composition as shown by a principle response curve. Whereas densities of Cyanophyceae, Dinophyceae, and Chrysophyceae increased, those of Conjugatophyceae ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Hense BA,Jaser W,Welzl G,Pfister G,Wöhler-Moorhoff GF,Schramm KW

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study evaluated the effects of benzalkonium chloride (BAC) and atrazine on the macrophyte Elodea canadensis (Michaux) using a miniaturised monitoring test system consisting of a microbioreactor of reduced volume and integrated sensors for the online measurement of physiologic parameters, like oxygen production and...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Vervliet-Scheebaum M,Ritzenthaler R,Normann J,Wagner E

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The xenobiotics accumulated in sediments represent a hazard to organisms. In order to study the toxic effects of xenobiotics in organisms, body residue has been proposed as a more relevant dose-metric than the environmental concentration of the chemical. In this study, the benthic oligochaetes Lumbriculus variegatus w...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mäenpää K,Sorsa K,Lyytikäinen M,Leppänen MT,Kukkonen JV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medetomidine, an antifouling candidate, was investigated for its effects on cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) activity in fish. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), turbot (Psetta maxima), and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were exposed to medetomidine either via i.p. injection (<5 micromol (1mg)/kg) or via water (<50 nM). Enzym...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lennquist A,Celander MC,Förlin L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of lead pollution on testate amoebae communities living on Sphagnum fallax by growing this moss under controlled conditions. A progressive series of lead (Pb) concentration was used in the growing solution of the mosses: 0 (control), 625 and 2,500 microgL(-1). The mosses were sampled and analyse...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Nguyen-Viet H,Bernard N,Mitchell EA,Badot PM,Gilbert D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, feral leaping mullet (Liza saliens) liver microsomal 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD), and cytosolic glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) activities were investigated using 7-ethoxyresorufin, 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB), and ethacrynic acid (EA) as substrates, respectively. The average EROD act...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sen A,Semiz A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microcosm experiment was carried out to study the influence of cadmium and diesel, individually and in a mixture, on a free living nematode community of a Tunisian lagoon. Sediments were contaminated with cadmium that ranged in concentration from 0.54 to 1.40 mg Cd kg(-1) (dry weight (dw)), by diesel at 0.25 mg kg(-...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Beyrem H,Mahmoudi E,Essid N,Hedfi A,Boufahja F,Aïssa P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction effects of the insecticides monocrotophos and quinalphos (organophosphates), and cypermethrin (pyrethroid), on microbial activities in two agricultural soils-black vertisol soil and red alfinsol soil were tested for 30 days under laboratory conditions. Individual application of the three insecticides at 5,...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gundi VA,Viswanath B,Chandra MS,Kumar VN,Reddy BR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Design of experimental (DOE) methodology using Taguchi orthogonal array (OA) was applied to evaluate the influence of eight biotic and abiotic factors (substrate-loading rate, slurry phase pH, slurry phase dissolved oxygen (DO), soil water ratio, temperature, soil microflora load, application of bioaugmentation and hu...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Venkata Mohan S,Sirisha K,Sreenivasa Rao R,Sarma PN

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effluents from textile preparation, dyeing, and finishing processes contain high concentrations of biologically difficult-to-degrade or even inert auxiliaries. Under these circumstances, it most often becomes inevitable to apply energy-intense and hence "imperative" treatment technologies (so-called advanced oxidation...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Arslan-Alaton I,Alaton I

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of species sensitivity differences is important in ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment, but testing usually focuses on lethality of toxicants. The effects on the suborganismal level are mostly ignored; therefore, the present study assessed a biomarker of genotoxicity (the alkaline comet assay) ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Fourie F,Reinecke SA,Reinecke AJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of nonylphenol (NP) to springtails was pronounced at 40 mg/kg dry weight soil, at which no animals survived. Body length and fecundity were the individual life-history traits significantly stimulated by sublethal concentrations of NP during a 64-day experiment. However, the effects of NP on these traits d...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Widarto TH,Krogh PH,Forbes VE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect the impact of pesticides on aquatic organisms, model streams (3m wide, 20 m long) were established in paddy field in Japan. More than 100 species of aquatic organisms were generated in the model streams. Field tests with pretilachlor herbicide and pyridaphenthion insecticide were carried out in the streams f...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Takahashi Y,Houjyo T,Kohjimoto T,Takagi Y,Mori K,Muraoka T,Annoh H,Ogiyama K,Funaki Y,Tanaka K,Wada Y,Fujita T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of lead (Pb) treatment on the soil enzymatic activities, soil microbial biomass, rice physiological indices and rice biomass were studied in a greenhouse pot experiment. Six levels of Pb viz. 0(CK), 100, 300, 500, 700, 900 mg/kg soil were applied in two types of paddy soils. The results showed that Pb treat...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zeng LS,Liao M,Chen CL,Huang CY

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodularin (NODLN) is a hepatotoxin produced by the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, which occurs regularly in the Baltic Sea. The primary aim of this study was to study the transfer of NODLN to three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.), herring (Clupea harengus membras L.), and salmon (Salmo salar L.), w...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sipiä V,Kankaanpää H,Peltonen H,Vinni M,Meriluoto J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using semiempirical quantum chemical descriptors, by partial least squares (PLS) regression, quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPRs) were established for direct photolysis quantum yields (Phi) and rate constants (k) of polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners dissolved in water/methanol and methanol solut...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Chen J,Wang D,Wang S,Qiao X,Huang L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suborganismal responses to toxicants can be sensitive tools to assess marine pollution, but their ecological significance is a matter of debate. Among these biomarkers, those linked to reproduction are most probably related to populational effects. To test this hypothesis, Nereis diversicolor were collected in the mul...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Durou C,Smith BD,Roméo M,Rainbow PS,Mouneyrac C,Mouloud M,Gnassia-Barelli M,Gillet P,Deutch B,Amiard-Triquet C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal contamination of soil resulting from wastewater irrigation is a cause of serious concern due to the potential health impacts of consuming contaminated produce. In this study an assessment is made of the impact of wastewater irrigation on heavy metal contamination of Beta vulgaris (palak); this is a highly ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kumar Sharma R,Agrawal M,Marshall F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitellogenin (VTG) in fish has been used as an important biomarker for monitoring endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). This paper reports the development of a new monoclonal antibody (McAb) against the VTG of crucian carp (Carassius carassius). The McAb has a molecular weight of 149.4 kDa (heavy chain: 53.1 kDa;...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： An L,Hu J,Zhu X,Deng B,Zhang Z,Yang M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the occurrence of tolerance to atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) in soil microalgae by means of the pollution-induced community tolerance methodology. To this end, a natural soil assemblage of microalgae, reared under laboratory conditions, was used as experimental model. Exp...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： García-Villada L,Reboud X

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) and the house wren (Troglodytes aedon) were identified as ecological receptors of concern due to exposure and potential effects stemming from polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in floodplain soils of the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Michigan, USA. Measures of populatio...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Neigh AM,Zwiernik MJ,Joldersma CA,Blankenship AL,Strause KD,Millsap SD,Newsted JL,Giesy JP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of 17beta-estradiol and p-nonylphenol were examined in the immune and endocrine organs of Japanese quail embryos. The test compounds were injected into the yolk of embryonated eggs. Injection of estrogen resulted in (1) disappearance of lymphoid cells and flattened development of plicae in the bursa of Fabrici...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Razia S,Maegawa Y,Tamotsu S,Oishi T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raw sewage and sewage at various stages of treatment were sampled from 15 municipal sewage treatment plants in south Queensland (Australia) and Canterbury (New Zealand). Estrogenic and androgenic activities were determined with sheep estrogen receptor and rainbow trout androgen receptor binding assays, respectively. S...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Leusch FD,Chapman HF,van den Heuvel MR,Tan BL,Gooneratne SR,Tremblay LA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the activity of hepatic glutathione S-transferase (GST) in flounder, Platichthys flesus, as a potential biomarker of exposure to xenobiotics present in the environment. The fish were collected along known pollution gradients and from areas regarded relatively free of anthrop...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Napierska D,Kopecka J,Podolska M,Pempkowiak J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00