Heavy Metal Exposure Affects the Humoral Immune Response in A Free-Living Small Songbird, the Great Tit (Parus major)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 399-404

  Snoeijs, Tinne ^a   Dauwe, Tom ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Vandesande, Frans ^b   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD;

HEAVY METAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PASSERINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMELTER; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; OVIS ARIES; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542343876     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-003-2195-6     Document Type: Article

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