Stress status of gudgeon (Gobio gobio) from rivers in Switzerland with and without input of sewage treatment plant effluent

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2063-2072

  Faller, Patrick ^a   Kobler, Bernd ^a   Peter, Armin ^a   Sumpter, John P ^b   Burkhardt Holm, Patricia ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyprinid fish; Cytochrome P450; Liver histology; Sewage effluent; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; FISHERIES; LIPIDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; TOXICITY;

POPULATION STRUCTURE;

SEWAGE TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOCHROME P450 1A; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; LIPID; NITRITE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; HEALTH STATUS; INCIDENCE; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLLUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RIVER; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRESS; SWITZERLAND; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYPRINIDAE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GONADS; HEALTH STATUS; LIVER; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SPLEEN; SWITZERLAND; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINIDAE; GOBIO; GOBIO GOBIO; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0242382044     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-356     Document Type: Article

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