Serum protein profile and blood cell counts in adult toads Bufo arenarum (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae): Effects of sublethal lead acetate

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 384-391

  Chiesa, María E ^a   Rosenberg, Carolina E ^a   Fink, Nilda E ^a   Salibián, Alfredo ^b,c  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLOBULIN; LEAD ACETATE; PLASMA PROTEIN;

IMMUNE SYSTEM; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOAD; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOAD;

ANIMALS; BUFO ARENARUM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; LEAD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM GLOBULINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; BUFO AMERICANUS; BUFO ARENARUM; BUFONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644654163     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-004-0252-4     Document Type: Article

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