Toxicity of the pharmaceutical clotrimazole to marine microalgal communities

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-211

  Porsbring, Tobias ^a   Blanck, Hans ^a   Tjellström, Henrik ^a   Backhaus, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clotrimazole; Community ecotoxicology; Diatoms; Norlanosterol; Periphyton; Pharmaceuticals; Sterols

Indexed keywords

CLOTRIMAZOLE; STEROL DERIVATIVE; XANTHOPHYLL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INHIBITION; MICROALGA; PERIPHYTON; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROL ANALYSIS; STEROL SYNTHESIS;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLOTRIMAZOLE; ENVIRONMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; STEROLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XANTHOPHYLLS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 58649114072     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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