Multiple-organ toxicity resulting from cylindrospermopsin exposure in tadpoles of the cane toad (Bufo marinus)

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 550-558

  Kinnear, S H W ^a   Fabbro, L D ^a   Duivenvoorden, L J ^a   Hibberd, E M A ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue green algae; Bufo; Cyanobacteria; Cylindrospermopsin; Cylindrospermopsis; Ecotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELL CULTURE; HEALTH RISKS; HISTOLOGY; TOXICITY;

CELL EXTRACTS; ECOTOXICITY; HISTOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

ANIMALS;

CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN;

AMPHIBIAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; FROG; GRAZING; HEALTH RISK; LARVA; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLUE GREEN ALGA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FREEZING; GILL; GRAZING; HEALTH HAZARD; INGESTION; INTESTINE; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; THAWING; TISSUE INJURY; TOAD; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BUFO MARINUS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LARVA; MARINE TOXINS; URACIL;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; BUFO; BUFO MARINUS; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

EID: 36148945234     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20299     Document Type: Article

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