Adverse effects of polluted continental water bodies in Chile on frog adrenergic synapse

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 640-647

  Norris, B ^a   Quevedo, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; RIVER WATER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FROG; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SCIATIC NERVE; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; SKIN TOXICITY; SYNAPSE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHILE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRESH WATER; GUINEA PIGS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0029816976     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900238     Document Type: Article

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