Heavy metals in different fishes from the middle eastern coast of Tunisia

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 766-773

  Hamza Chaffai, A ^a   Romeo M ^b   El Abed, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Inst Natl Sci Tech d'O   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; GONAD; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; SEA POLLUTION; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CALIBRATION; COPPER; FISHES; GONADS; LIVER; MUSCLES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUNISIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATIONS; FISH; HEAVY METALS;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0029667271     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900112     Document Type: Article

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