Endocrine disrupting, haematological and biochemical effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a terrestrial songbird, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6142-6147

  Van den Steen, Evi ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a   Geens, Ann ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Darras, Veerle M ^b   Pinxten, Rianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Albumin; Biochemical parameters; Endocrine disruption; European starling; Haematological parameters; Pentabromodiphenyl ether; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; EUROPEAN STARLING; HAEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; THYROID HORMONES;

BIRDS; BLOOD; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ETHERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HORMONES;

ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE; ESTRADIOL; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIOTHYRONINE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; URIC ACID;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HEMATOLOGY; HORMONE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; STARLINGS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 77958108394     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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