Investigating links between polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure and thymic involution and thymic cysts in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2168-2176

  Yap, Xinli ^a   Deaville, Rob ^a   Perkins, Matthew W ^a   Penrose, Rod ^b   Law, Robin J ^c   Jepson, Paul D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Marine Environmental Monitoring   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harbour porpoise; Phocoena phocoena; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Thymic cyst; Thymic involution; Thymus

Indexed keywords

HARBOUR PORPOISE; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; THYMIC CYSTS; THYMIC INVOLUTION; THYMUS;

COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; MAMMALS; NUTRITION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HISTOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURITY; TOXICITY; TURTLE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INVOLUTION; MALE; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PORPOISE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; THYMUS CYST; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIASTINAL CYST; PHOCOENA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; THYMUS GLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

MAMMALIA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84866760010     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.07.038     Document Type: Article

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