Structural and functional impairment of the hypothalamo-pituitary-interrenal axis in fish exposed to bleached kraft mill effluent in the St Maurice River, Quebec

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Hontela, Alice ^a   Daniel, Claude ^a   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute stress; BKME; Cortisol; Endocrine dysfunction; Fish; Interrenal; Morphology; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FISH; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEOST; WATER POLLUTION;

ESOX LUCIUS; PERCA FLAVESCENS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0030907795     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018699405158     Document Type: Article

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