The toxicity testing of double-walled nanotubes-contaminated food to Eisenia veneta earthworms

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-619

  Scott Fordsmand, J J ^a   Krogh, P H ^a   Schaefer, M ^b   Johansen, A ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

C60; Double walled nanotubes (DWNT); Earthworm ecotoxicology; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE WALLED NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD QUALITY; FULLERENE; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; COCOON; EARTHWORM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INCUBATION TIME; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; FULLERENES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY TESTS;

EISENIA VENETA;

EID: 53249098860     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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