Embryotoxic potential of persistent organic pollutants extracted from tissues of guillemots (Uria aalge) from the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2401-2411

  De Roode, Daphne F ^a   Gustavsson, M Bodil ^b   Rantalainen, Anna Lea ^a   Klomp, Anette V ^a   Koeman, Jan H ^a   Bosveld, Albertus T C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Chicken embryo assay; Ethoxyresorufin O deethylase; Guillemot; Immunotoxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMARKERS; EXTRACTION; IMPURITIES; MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

MORPHOMETRY;

WATER POLLUTION;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PORPHYRIN; THIAMINE;

EMBRYO; FISH; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BIRD; CHICKEN; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRACTIONATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LIPOPHILICITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLARIZATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; TISSUE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIRDS; BURSA OF FABRICIUS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INDUCTION; FOOD CHAIN; NORWAY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SWEDEN; TERATOGENS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; URIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0036837681     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620211120     Document Type: Article

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