The medicinal leech as a convenient tool for water toxicity assessment

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 336-341

  Petrauskiene, Laima ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Body weight; Excretion; Feeding; Heavy metals; Medicinal leech; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXICITY;

HEAVY METAL MODEL MIXTURES (HMMM); NATURAL SOURCES; TOXICITY ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; WATER; ZINC;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LEECH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXCRETION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEECH; LITHUANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; DEFECATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; LEECHES; LITHUANIA; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, ANIMAL; POWER PLANTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS;

EID: 4444305072     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20039     Document Type: Article

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