Ecological uptake and depuration of carbon nanotubes by Lumbriculus variegatus

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 496-500

  Petersen, Elijah J ^a   Huang, Qingguo ^b   Weber Jr , Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Carbon nanotubes; Ecotoxicology; Environmental risks; Fullerenes; Lumbriculus variegatus; MWNT; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; SWNT

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OLIGOCHAETA; PYRENES;

LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 45749113740     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10883     Document Type: Article

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