Toxic potencies of lipophilic extracts from sediments and settling particulate matter (SPM) collected in a PCB-contaminated river system

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-222

  Engwall, Magnus ^a   Broman, Dag ^b   Ishaq, Rasha ^b   Näf, Carina ^b   Zebühr, Yngve ^b   Brunström, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450IA1; EROD; Liver cultures; Sediment toxicity; TCDD equivalents

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; LIGAND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EXTRACT; LIVER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030019845     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<0213:TPOLEF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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