Associations between organochlorine contaminant concentrations and clinical health parameters in loggerhead sea turtles from North Carolina, USA

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1074-1079

  Keller, Jennifer M ^a,b   Kucklick, John R ^b   Stamper, M Andrew ^c,e   Harms, Craig A ^d   McClellan Green, Patricia D ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Disney's Epcot The Living Seas   (United States)

Author keywords

Health assessment; Hematology; Organochlorine contaminants; PCBs; Persistent organic pollutants; Pesticides; Plasma chemistries; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Reptile; White blood cell counts; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; MAGNESIUM; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM; UREA;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TOXICITY; BODY FAT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURTLE; UNITED STATES; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 3543151411     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6923     Document Type: Article

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