abstract：:Levels of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and PCB were determined in three duck species: Pintail (Anas acuta), Common Teal (Anas creaca), and Mallard (Anas platyhynchos). Both persistent organochlorines were more abundant in muscle than in the liver; Mallard had the highest levels of PCBs [84.0 +/- 39.0 ng/g wet weig...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rajaei F,Bahramifar N,Esmaili Sari A,Ghasempouri SM,Savabieasfahani M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass balance model was developed to estimate prescription pharmaceutical loadings to municipal wastewater treatment plants via computation of influent concentrations (C(IN)). Model estimates of C(IN) were compared with published data and found to be accurate within an order of magnitude for some 90% of the drugs eva...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ottmar KJ,Colosi LM,Smith JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brinjal fruits were sprayed with recommended dose (0.001%) of cypermethrin. Effects of processing viz. washing, cooking in water, cooking in oil, microwave cooking, and grilling was studied to dislodge cypermethrin residues on brinjal. Cypermethrin residues remaining in the control and processed samples were analyzed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Walia S,Boora P,Kumari B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental behavior of different types of automotive lubricant oils. Based on respirometry assays the biodegradability was monitored, and toxicological tests were executed to assess the lubricants toxicity before and after microbial activity. Used oil was the most bio...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lopes PR,Montagnolli RN,de Fátima Domingues R,Bidoia ED

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of the spatial and temporal distributions of selected heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg) in Bohai Bay, north China was examined. Surface sediment samples from 15 sites were collected and analyzed for the selected metals with atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) from the year of 1997-2007. Mean concen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhan S,Peng S,Liu C,Chang Q,Xu J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a groundwater flow and mass transport model, this study compared the capability of trenches with permeable backfill for capturing hypothetical contaminant plumes in homogeneous and heterogeneous unconfined aquifers. Longitudinal (parallel to groundwater flow), as well as conventional transverse (perpendicular to...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hudak PF

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field experiments were carried out to investigate the dissipation of boscalid in strawberries and soils and its residual levels in strawberries at two different sites. Boscalid (50% water dispersible granule) was applied at two dosages (349.5 and 525.0 g a.i./ha). Soils and strawberry samples were collected at 0, 1, 2...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Chen L,Zhang S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs) are relatively simple, promising technology for groundwater remediation. A PRBs consisting of two reactive barriers (zero valent iron-barrier and bio-barrier) were designed to evaluate the application and feasibility of the barriers for the removal of wide range of pollutants fro...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lee JY,Lee KJ,Youm SY,Lee MR,Kamala-Kannan S,Oh BT

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogenic activity of kraft pulp mill effluents (P. radiata, E. globulus and mixed -50% E. globulus and 50% P. radiata) was evaluated by the yeast estrogen screen assay. The estrogenic activity values were relatively low, ranking between 1.475 and 0.383 ng/L of EE2 eq. (Estrogenic equivalent of 17 alpha-ethynylestrad...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Chamorro S,Hernández V,Monsalvez E,Becerra J,Mondaca MA,Piña B,Vidal G

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method based on high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) has been developed to investigate florfenicol residues. Among 11 stations, florfenicol was detected in six water samples. The concentrations of florfenicol in the six samples were 64.2 microg L(-1), 390.6 microg ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zong H,Ma D,Wang J,Hu J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of echinoid parental nutrition in early-life stage toxicity is not well understood. Arbacia punctulata were fed either a fresh diet consisting of organic lettuce and carrots or a dry feed. Embryos from parents fed the dry feed exhibited lower sensitivity to copper, whereas the opposite occurred with 1,3,5-tri...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nelson RW,Nipper M,Lawrence A,Watts S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have described human exposure to heavy metals from diverse sources in Nigeria, but little is known about the exposure from personal care products, and few or no report is available on the personal care product concentrations of cadmium, chromium, copper and zinc, which have biotic effects. The levels ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ayenimo JG,Yusuf AM,Adekunle AS,Makinde OW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fish, selenium can bioaccumulate and cause adverse impacts. One of the fish species potentially at risk from selenium in the San Francisco Bay (California, USA) is the splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus). Previous studies have derived a whole body NOAEL and LOAEL of 9.0 and 12.9 mg/kg-dw, respectively, for sele...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rigby MC,Deng X,Grieb TM,Teh SJ,Hung SS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of edible parts of three dietary vegetables, Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), Radish (Raphanus sativus L.), and Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) by air-borne cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and lead (Pb) was determined using pot culture experiments at three sites in the city o...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Pandey J,Pandey R,Shubhashish K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of concentrations of benzene and its derivatives in the Amur water and fish caught in summer and autumn 2006 was carried out after Jilin chemical plant accident (winter 2005) in the People’s Republic of China. Fish sampling of Leiocassis ussuriensis conducted in the Amur River near Khabarovsk identified ben...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Levshina SI,Efimov NN,Bazarkin VN

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) from domestic effluents on rivers were evaluated. The hourly DMF concentrations in the inflows (0.21-0.52 mug/L in mean) and the outflows (0.18-0.62 mug/L in mean) of two sewage treatment plants did not show any characteristic variations, and DMF was not removed at both plant...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tanabe A,Kawata K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A liquid chromatography electrospray mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/MS) method working in multiple reactions monitoring mode for the determination of trace amounts of microcystin variants (MC-LR and [Dha(7)] MC-LR) in waters was developed. The limit of quantification was 0.05 microg/L and the limit of detection was 0.015 m...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Yu T,Xie P,Dai M,Liang G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean concentrations of selected USEPA priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in surface sediments and water samples from Car Wash and Kisat areas of Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria in Kenya have been determined using GC-FID and GC-MS. Sampling was done during the rainy season in April 2006. The PAH concentrations ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kwach BO,Lalah JO

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contaminant accumulation analysis is important in the study of sentinels. This research determined cadmium accumulation and bioconcentration factors of whole organism, liver, kidney, ovary and testis of Fejervarya limnocharis exposed to different environmental cadmium levels. Frogs from contaminated sites had signific...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Othman MS,Khonsue W,Kitana J,Thirakhupt K,Robson MG,Kitana N

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight water samples were collected at Yangbajing to investigate the water contamination resulting from natural geothermal water discharge and anthropogenic geothermal wastewater drainage. The results indicate that snow or snow melting waters, Yangbajing River waters and cold groundwaters are free from geotherma...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Guo Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taiwan is a small island nation, and many aquaculture sites are located near industrial parks. Anthropogenic activities may contaminate fish ponds. Therefore, we investigated the concentrations of eight metal elements in tilapia tissues (muscle and scale) at two fisheries. We compared the difference in metal content i...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ling MP,Hsu HT,Shie RH,Wu CC,Hong YS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of estrogens (estrone: E1, 17beta-estradiol: E2, estriol: E3 and ethinylestradiol: EE2) and an androgen (testosterone) in the water and sludge from Johkasou in Japan was investigated. The concentrations of E1, E2, E3 and testosterone in water samples from the Johkasou were 33-500, N.D. approximately 150, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nakagawa S,Matsuo H,Motoyama M,Nomiyama K,Shinohara R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and n-alkanes was investigated in the surface sediment from the Shinano River in Niigata, Japan. The total concentrations of the PAHs and n-alkanes ranged from 102 to 10,450 ng/g dry weight and from 160 to 3,530 ng/g dry, respectively. Perylene (Per) in the s...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hori T,Shiota N,Asada T,Oikawa K,Kawata K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Average initial deposits of flubendiamide on chili were found to be 1.06 and 2.00 mg kg(-1), respectively, following two applications of flubendiamide 480SC at 60 and 120 g a.i. ha(-1) at 10 days interval. More than 80% of flubendiamide residues dissipated just after 3 days of the last application at both the dosages....

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sahoo SK,Sharma RK,Battu RS,Singh B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were analyzed in muscle, liver and gills of masu salmon caught in northern Japan. Liver is known to be a major pool site for POPs but there is not much information regarding accumulation of POPs in gills. The salmon were caught at the end of the feeding migration, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Oka M,Arai T,Shibata Y,Miyazaki N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper first reports the occurrence and fate of monobutyltin, dibutyltin, tributyltin, monophenyltin, diphenyltin and triphenyltin in drinking water from north China. The sum of the six organotins in raw water and drinking water ranged from 33.3 to 476.9 ng Sn L(-1) and from no detection to 142.4 ng Sn L(-1), resp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gao J,Hu J,Zhen H,Jin X,Li B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantified imposex in file dogwinkles (Nucella lima) and tributyltin (TBT) contamination in bay mussels (Mytilus trossulus) from a number of sites in Auke Bay, Alaska, previously studied in the late 1980s. Imposex occurrence and TBT contamination have generally declined in spatial extent and severity over time. How...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tallmon DA,Hoferkamp L

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, environmentally key properties including aqueous solubilities (S(W)), vapor pressures (V(P)), sorption coefficients (K(OC)), octanol-water (K(OW)), octanol-air (K(OA)) and air-water (K(AW)) partition coefficients of 53 phthalates are studied by the quantitative structure-property relationship models by ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Lu C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury, cadmium, and lead concentrations of ashed plants and insects samples were investigated and compared with those of soil to reveal their biogeochemical processes along food chains in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, China. Concentration factors of each fragments of the soil-plant-the herbivorous insect-the carn...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang ZS,Lu XG,Wang QC,Zheng DM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of the insecticidal Cry1Ab protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) by various crops from soils on which Bt corn had previously grown was determined. In 2005, the Cry1Ab protein was detected by Western blot in tissues (leaves plus stems) of basil, carrot, kale, lettuce, okra, parsnip, radish, snap bean, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Icoz I,Andow D,Zwahlen C,Stotzky G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leydig cell morphological changes were evaluated using morphometric and stereological methods in male mice exposed to low doses of cadmium. A possible reversibility of the changes after cadmium withdrawal was also considered. Nuclear morphological parameters and stereological densities of the Leydig cell population we...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Blanco A,Moyano MR,Molina AM,Blanco C,Flores-Acuña R,García-Flores JR,Espada M,Monterde JG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiometric measurements were taken in a small area of Pernambuco, Brazil, with the objective of monitoring the radium of the soil. For this, 78 soil samples were collected. The gamma analyses of the samples were carried out using HPGe. The values obtained for the (226)Ra varied from 14 to 367 Bqkg(-1) and for the (22...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Santos Júnior JA,Amaral RS,Silva CM,Menezes RS,Bezerra JD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to investigate time-dependent changes in oxidative enzymes in liver of crucian carp after intraperitoneally injection with extracted microcystins 600 and 150 microg kg(-1) body weight. The results showed that activities of antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathi...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang X,Xie P,Li D,Tang R,Lei H,Zhao Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown shrimp, Penaeus aztecus, is subject to dual stresses of environmental hypoxia and contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The effects of hypoxia and sedimentary naphthalene, administered alone and in combination, on epidermal activity of N-acetyl-beta-glucosam...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zou E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field survey was conducted to study the characteristics of zinc, cadmium, and lead accumulation and rhizosphere microbial population associated with hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii Hance growing natively on an old lead/zinc mining site. We found significant hyperaccumulation of zinc and cadmium in field samples of S...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Long XX,Zhang YG,Jun D,Zhou Q

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method was developed for the simultaneous determination of ronidazole (RNZ), metronidazole (MNZ) and dimetridazole (DMZ) residues in swine liver. Following liquid-liquid extraction, the HLB solid-phase extraction was used for further purification. The targets were detected by ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wang H,Wang Z,Liu S,Jiang Y,Wu Y,Shan J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate acute toxic effects of the preparation Sencor 70 WG (metribuzin 70% W/V) on hematological, biochemical indices and histology of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). In carp exposed for 96 h to Sencor 70 WG in the concentration of 250.2 mg/L, showed significantly lower (p<0.01) val...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Velisek J,Svobodova Z,Piackova V,Sudova E

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine the concentration of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sandstorm depositions in Beijing, China. The PAH concentrations in 13 samples collected in Beijing ranged from 0.18 to 3.52 microg g(-1). Analysis of the sources of contamination revealed that the PAHs were derived...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Fu S,Li K,Xia XJ,Xu XB

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaculture is currently one of the most rapidly growing production sectors in Vietnam. This publication describes the concentrations of heavy metals in the farming environment and some aquaculture species in the Khanh Hoa Province in Vietnam. The concentration of total As in the sediments ranged from 0.07 to 0.64 mg/...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nghia ND,Lunestad BT,Trung TS,Son NT,Maage A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bauxite residue, as solid waste from alumina production, contains mainly hematite [Fe2O3]. Kinetic study of iron leaching of bauxite residue by diluted sulfuric acid at atmospheric pressure has been investigated. The results have been obtained as following: (i) Temperature play an important role in iron leaching from ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Liu ZR,Zeng K,Zhao W,Li Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00