Use of biomarkers to show sub-cellular effects in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) living on an abandoned gold mine site

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 5548-5554

  Saunders, Jared R ^a   Knopper, Loren D ^b   Yagminas, Al ^c   Koch, Iris ^a   Reimer, Kenneth J ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biomarkers; Glutathione; Gold Mine; Micronucleated Red Blood Cells; Voles

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC EXPOSURE; ARSENIC-CONTAMINATED SITES; BIOMONITORING STUDIES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FIELD STUDIES; FOOD CHAIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONES; MEADOW VOLES; MICRONUCLEATED RED BLOOD CELLS; MICROTUS; MINE TAILINGS; RED BLOOD CELL; SUB-CELLULAR; TROPHIC LEVEL; VOLES;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; ARSENIC; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GOLD; GOLD MINES; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; LIVER; MINES; MINING; MONOCHROMATORS;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD; RUNOFF;

ARSENIC; BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; GOLD MINE; TAILINGS; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HYPOTHESIS; MICRONUCLEUS; MINE TAILINGS; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TROPHIC CASCADE; VOLE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WILDLIFE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD; LIVER; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MINING; PLANTS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 67649985138     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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