Comparative toxicity and biochemical responses of certain pesticides to the mature earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa under laboratory conditions

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 338-346

  Mosleh, Yahia Y ^a,b   Ismail, Saad M M ^a   Ahmed, Mohamed T ^a   Ahmed, Yousery M ^a  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Glucose; Growth rate; Pesticides; Phosphatases; Soluble protein; Transaminases

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; GROWTH KINETICS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; SOIL POLLUTION;

BIOCHEMICAL RESPONSES;

TOXICITY;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALDICARB; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATRAZINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORFLUAZURON; CIPERMETHRIN; GLUCOSE; METALAXYL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; PROFENOFOS; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLUCOSE; OLIGOCHAETA; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEINS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRANSAMINASES;

APORRECTODEA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0141927336     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.10134     Document Type: Article

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