Accumulation pattern of butyltin compounds in dolphin, tuna, and shark collected from Italian coastal waters

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-23

  Kannan, K ^a,c   Corsolini, S ^b   Focardi, S ^b   Tanabe, S ^a   Tatsukawa, R ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYLTIN; BUTYLTIN DERIVATIVE; DIBUTYLTIN; GLUTATHIONE; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; FISH; ITALY; KIDNEY; LIVER LEVEL; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SHARK; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; THUNNUS; THUNNUS THYNNUS THYNNUS; THYNNUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0029849758     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00203903     Document Type: Article

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