Rodent neurotoxicity bioassays for screening contaminated Great Lakes fish

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-318

  Beattie, M Kate ^a   Gerstenberger, Shawn ^b   Hoffman, Richard ^a   Dellinger, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Lakes fish; Methylmercury; Neurotoxicity; PCB; Rats

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CARP; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; LAKE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; CYPRINUS CARPIO; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0030064919     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<0313:RNBFSC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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