Toxicity and bioaccumulation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene in fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3253-3260

  Yoo, Leslie J ^a   Lotufo, Guilherme R ^a   Gibson, Alfreda B ^a   Steevens, Jeffery A ^a   Sims, Jerre G ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4,6 Trinitrotoluene; Bioaccumulation; Fathead minnow; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; MARINE POLLUTION; TISSUE; TOLUENE; TOXICITY;

BIOACCUMULATION; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FATHEAD MINNOW; TRINITROTOLUENE (TNT);

TOXIC MATERIALS;

TRINITROTOLUENE;

BIOACCUMULATION; CYPRINID; TOXICITY TEST; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICOKINETICS; VISCERA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; KINETICS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 33846192017     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-067R.1     Document Type: Article

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