Monitoring pollution in River Mureş, Romania, part II: Metal accumulation and histopathology in fish

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 177-188

  Triebskorn, Rita ^a,b   Telcean, Ilie ^c   Casper, Heidi ^b   Farkas, Anna ^d   Sandu, Cristina ^e   Stan, Gheorghe ^f,g   Colârescu, Ovidiu ^f   Dori, Tiberiu ^f   Köhler, Heinz R ^b  

^a Steinbeis Transfer Center for Ecotoxicology and Ecophysiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA   (Romania)

^d BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^f VASILE GOLDIS WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF ARAD   (Romania)

^g BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Chub; Fish; Histopathology; Metal accumulation; Monitoring; Sneep

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; FISH; HEAVY METALS; HISTOLOGY; MACROPHAGES; PATHOLOGY; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

HISTOPATHOLOGY; METAL ACCUMULATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; RIVER WATER; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; FISH; HEALTH STATUS; HEAVY METAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DEATH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL SWELLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPITHELIUM CELL; FECAL COLIFORM; FISH; GILL; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RIVER; ROMANIA; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; STREPTOCOCCUS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; METALS, HEAVY; ROMANIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARAD; EURASIA; EUROPE; MURES; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CHONDROSTOMA NASUS; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS;

EID: 43249091599     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9886-9     Document Type: Article

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