Mercury and selenium concentrations in the internal organs of toothed whales and dolphins marketed for human consumption in Japan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 300, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 15-22

  Endo, Tetsuya ^a   Haraguchi, Koichi ^b   Sakata, Masakatsu ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dolphin; Human consumption; Liver; Mercury; Metallothionein; Selenium; Toothed whale

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONTAMINATION; DETOXIFICATION; MERCURY (METAL); SELENIUM;

INTOXICATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

MERCURY; SELENIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DOLPHIN; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DATA COLLECTION; DOLPHINS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MERCURY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS; WHALES;

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINIDAE; ODONTOCETI;

EID: 2242494517     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00137-7     Document Type: Article

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