Methylmercury, total mercury and total selenium in four common freshwater fish species from Ya-Er Lake, China

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-407

  Jin, Lina ^a   Liang, Lina ^b   Jiang, Guibin ^b   Xu, Ying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Fish; Methyl mercury; Public health; Total mercury; Total selenium

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARP; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PERCIFORMES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; CARPS; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MUSCLES; PERCIFORMES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; YA-ER LAKE;

CARASSIUS CARASSIUS; CHANNA ARGUS; CYPRINUS CARPIO; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS NOBILIS;

EID: 33749168363     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-005-9038-5     Document Type: Article

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