Copper pellets simulating oral exposure to copper ammunition: Absence of toxicity in American kestrels (Falco sparverius)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-153

  Christian Franson, J ^a   Lahner, Lesanna L ^a   Meteyer, Carol U ^a   Rattner, Barnett A ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEMOGLOBIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHEMOGLOBIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INGESTION RATE; METALLOTHIONEIN; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RAPTOR; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BULLET; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER POISONING; FALCO SPARVERIUS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; PELOBACTER; PHYLOGENY; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPTOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COPPER; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; FIREARMS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; PANCREAS;

AVES; FALCO SPARVERIUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84856971620     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-011-9671-1     Document Type: Article

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