Arsenic transformations and biomarkers in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) living on an abandoned gold mine site in Montague, Nova Scotia, Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 829-835

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

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Jacques Whitford Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biomarkers; Glutathione; Gold mine; Micronucleated red blood cells; Speciation; Voles

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ARSENIC ANALYSIS; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC EXPOSURE; ARSENIC SPECIATION; ARSENIC-CONTAMINATED SITES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOMONITORING STUDIES; CHEMICAL EFFECT; CO-EXISTENCE; CONTAMINATED SITES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; FIELD STUDIES; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONES; GOLD MINING; INTERNAL TISSUES; MEADOW VOLES; MICRONUCLEATED RED BLOOD CELLS; MICROTUS; MINE TAILINGS; MONOMETHYLARSONIC ACIDS; NOVA SCOTIA; RED BLOOD CELL; SUB-CELLULAR;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BLOOD; CELLS; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; GOLD; GOLD MINES; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; HISTOLOGY; MINES; MINING;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD; METHANEARSONIC ACID;

ABANDONED MINE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GOLD MINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TAILINGS DAM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANADA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIVER LEVEL; MINE TAILINGS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE LEVEL; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIVER; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MINING; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

CANADA; MONTAGUE GOLD MINE; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ANIMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 71849090916     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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