The effect of humic acids on the cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles to a natural aquatic bacterial assemblage

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5817-5823

  Dasari, Thabitha P ^a   Hwang, Huey Min ^a,b  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jackson State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Reactive oxygen species; River humic acid; Silver nanoparticles; Terrestrial humic acid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGES; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGNS; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; EXPOSURE GROUPS; FULL FACTORIAL; GENERAL LINEAR MODELS; HUMIC ACID; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERACTION EFFECT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT TREATMENTS; MAIN EFFECT; NATURAL SUNLIGHT; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TREATMENT GROUP;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXYGEN; RIVERS;

SILVER;

HUMIC ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYTOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HUMIC ACID; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGEN; REACTION KINETICS; SILVER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NATURAL AQUATIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTES BY HABITAT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SUNLIGHT;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; RIVERS; SILVER; SUNLIGHT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77958097855     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.030     Document Type: Article

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