Relationship of blood mercury levels to health parameters in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1421-1428

  Day, Rusty D ^a,b   Segars, Ai L ^b,c   Arendt, Michael D ^c   Lee, A Michelle ^b,d   Peden Adams, Margie M ^b,d,e,f  

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

^b School of Business   (United States)

^c SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate aminotransferase (AST); Blood; Creatine phosphokinase (CPK); Hematocrit; Immunotoxicity; Loggerhead sea turtles; Lymphocytes; Mercury; Methylmercury; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LYSOZYME; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARETTA CARETTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXICITY TESTING; TREND STUDY; TURTLE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CREATINE KINASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TURTLES;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 35448967050     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9918     Document Type: Article

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