Tissue-specific bioenergetic effects and increased enzymatic activities following acute sublethal peroral exposure to cyanide in the mallard duck

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 297-302

  Ma, Juntao ^a   Pritsos, Chris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; DUCK; ECOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; ANUS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; PLATYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 0031062293     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.8045     Document Type: Article

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