The effect of atrazine on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in fresh water and after sea water transfer

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-104

  Waring, Colin P ^a   Moore, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; ATPase; Atrazine; Salinity transfer; Smolts; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ATRAZINE; FRESH WATER; HYDROCORTISONE; MONOVALENT CATION; PESTICIDE; SEA WATER; THYROXINE;

ATRAZINE; FRESHWATER; SALINITY; SMOLT; STRESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SALMO; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 0346218237     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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