Toxicity of heavy metals using sperm cell and embryo toxicity bioassays with Paracentrotus lividus (echinodermata: Echinoidea): Comparisons with exposure concentrations in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1295-1301

  Novelli, Alessandra Arizzi ^a   Losso, Chiara ^a   Ghetti, Pier Francesco ^a   Ghirardini, Annamaria Volpi ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryo toxicity test; Heavy metals; Paracentrotus lividus; Sea urchin; Sperm cell toxicity test

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; HEAVY METALS; TOXICITY;

EMBRYO CULTURE;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ZINC;

ECHINODERM; HEAVY METAL; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ECHINODERM; ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL POISONING; ITALY; LAGOON; MEDIAN EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NO OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPERM; TOXICITY TESTING;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ITALY; LARVA; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; SEA URCHINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ITALY;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 0042317027     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<1295:TOHMUS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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