Tail hair as an indicator of environmental exposure of cows to lead and cadmium in different industrial areas

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-131

  Patra, R C ^a   Swarup, D ^a   Naresh, Ram ^b   Kumar, Puneet ^a   Nandi, D ^a   Shekhar, Pallav ^a   Roy, S ^c   Ali, S L ^c  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b IVRI Regional Center at Mukteswar   (India)

^c Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwa Vidyalaya   (India)

Author keywords

Blood; Cadmium; Cow; Lead; Tail hair

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; LEAD;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CADMIUM; CATTLE; HAIR; LEAD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMELTING; URBAN POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM FACTORY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL AREA; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; SMELTER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAIR; INDUSTRY; LEAD; TAIL;

EID: 33846161605     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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