Effect of an acute and chronic toxicity of four commercial detergents on the freshwater fish Gambusia affinis Baird & Gerard

Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-124

  Saxena, Pratibha ^a   Sharma, Subhasini ^a   Sharma, Shweta ^a   Suryavathi, V ^a   Grover, Ruby ^a   Soni, Pratima ^a   Kumar, Suresh ^a   Sharma, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; LD 50; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DETERGENTS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; LETHAL DOSE 50; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 27944476768     PISSN: 0367827X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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