High accumulation of tributyltin in blood among the tissues of fish and applicability to environmental monitoring

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1515-1517

  Oshima, Yuji ^a   Nirmala, Kukuh ^a   Go, Jyoji ^a   Yokota, Yoshiko ^a   Koyama, Jiro ^b   Imada, Nobuyoshi ^a   Honjo, Tsuneo ^a   Kobayashi, Kunio ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood accumulation; Marine fishes; Tributyltin contamination

Indexed keywords

TRIBUTYLTIN;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; PISCES; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 0030786633     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<1515:SCHAOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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