Evidence for bioavailability of Au nanoparticles from soil and biodistribution within earthworms (Eisenia fetida)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 8308-8313

  Unrine, Jason M ^a   Hunyadi, Simona E ^a   Tsyusko, Olga V ^a   Rao, William ^a   Shoults Wilson, W Aaron ^a   Bertsch, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AU NANOPARTICLE; BIODISTRIBUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; DETRITIVORES; EARTHWORM REPRODUCTION; EISENIA FETIDA; FOOD WEBS; MASS CONCENTRATION; NANO-MATERIALS; OXIDATIVE DISSOLUTION; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PORE WATERS; PRIMARY PARTICLE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSOLIDS; DISSOLUTION; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GOLD ALLOYS; HISTOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; SOILS;

GOLD;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; EARTHWORM; FOOD WEB; GOLD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POREWATER; REPRODUCTION; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALLOTHIONEIN; OLIGOCHAETA; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 78549260446     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101885w     Document Type: Article

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