Plasma and whole brain cholinesterase activities in three wild bird species in Mosul, IRAQ: In vitro inhibition by insecticides

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 144-148

  Alias, Ashraf ^a   Al Zubaidy, Muna ^a   Mousa, Yaareb ^a   Mohammad, Fouad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOSUL   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Cholinesterase; Insecticides; Organophosphate; Wild birds

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE INSECTICIDE; CARBARIL; DICHLORVOS; MALATHION; MONOCROTOPHOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRAIN; BRAIN TOXICITY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; COLUMBA LIVIA GADDI; DOVE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IRAQ; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; QUAIL; STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO; WILD SPECIES;

AVES; COLUMBA LIVIA; COTURNIX COTURNIX; PHASIANIDAE; STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO;

EID: 80055085052     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-011-0022-x     Document Type: Article

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