Nephrotoxic effects in free-living bank voles in a heavy metal polluted environment

Ambio

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 417-420

  Leffler, Per E ^a   Nyholm, N Erik I ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANK VOLE; CADMIUM; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; NEPHROTOXIC;

SWEDEN;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 0030303482     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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24. Laboratory director Ove Emteryd is gratefully acknowledged for ICP-MS analysis of metals and professor Bo Niklasson for PUU-analysis. Professor Gunnar Nordberg and Dr Birger Hömfeldt are acknowledged for fruitfully supporting the project. The study was financially supported by Centre for Environmental Research, Umeå.
25. First submitted 18 May 1995 Accepted for publication after revision 2 November 1995.