Wild rats as monitors of environmental lead contamination in the urban area of Milan, Italy

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-259

  Ceruti, Roberta ^a   Ghisleni, Gabriele ^a   Ferretti, Enrica ^b   Cammarata, Serafina ^c   Sonzogni, Oreste ^d   Scanziani, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^c Presidio Multizonale di Igiene e Prevenzione   (Italy)

^d Istituto di Farmacologia Tossicologa e Terapia Sperimentale Veterinaria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intranuclear inclusion bodies; Kidney; Lead; Milan; Rattus norvegicus

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CONTAMINATION; HEALTH RISKS; INCLUSIONS; PARAFFINS;

WILD RATS;

LEAD;

LEAD;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; LEAD; POLLUTION MONITORING; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY REGIONS; CELL INCLUSION; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HISTOLOGY; ITALY; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SAMPLING; STAINING; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; ITALY; KIDNEY; LEAD; MALE; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ITALY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0036167548     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00273-1     Document Type: Article

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