Bioassays for evaluating the water-extractable genotoxic and toxic potential of soils polluted by metal smelters

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 472-483

  Vidic, Tatjana ^a   Lah, Barbara ^b   Berden Zrimec, Maja ^c   Marinsek Logar, Romana ^b  

^a Simon Jenko Primary School Kranj   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Institute of Physical Biology   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Delayed fluorescence; Genotoxicity; HepG2 cells; Lemna minor; Pollution; Tetrahymena thermophila; Toxicity; Vibrio fischeri; Water soil extracts

Indexed keywords

COMET ASSAY; DELAYED FLUORESCENCE; GENOTOXICITY; HEPG2 CELLS; LEMNA MINOR; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER/SOIL EXTRACTS;

BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICALS; FLUORESCENCE; LEAD; LEAD SMELTING; METALS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TOXICITY; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; LEAD; METAL; WATER; ZINC;

AQUATIC PLANT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENOTOXICITY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LEAD; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TOXICITY TEST; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOASSAY; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; SOIL POLLUTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ARACEAE; CADMIUM; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; KINETICS; LEAD; METALLURGY; METALS; MUTAGENS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TOXICITY TESTS; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER; ZINC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

LEMNA MINOR; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 70349125886     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20451     Document Type: Article

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