Toxic potencies of extracts of sediment and settling particulate matter collected in the recipient of a bleached pulp mill effluent before and after abandoning chlorine bleaching

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1187-1194

  Engwall, Magnus ^a   Broman, Dag ^b   Dencker, Lennart ^a   Näf, Carina ^b   Zebühr, Yngve ^b   Brunström, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

7 Ethoxyresorulin O deethylase; Bleached pulp mill effluents; Cytochrome P4501A; Sediment toxicity; Tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin equivalents

Indexed keywords

BLEACHED PULP MILL EFFLUENTS; CYTOCHROME; ETHOXYRESORUFIN-O-DEETHYLASE; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN EQUIVALENTS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOASSAY; BLEACHED PULP; BLEACHING; CHLORINE; EFFLUENTS; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEDIMENTS;

TOXICITY;

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; EFFLUENT; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031172183     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<1187:TPOEOS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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