Bioavailability, toxicity and biotransformation of selenium in midge (Chironomus dilutus) larvae exposed via water or diet to elemental selenium particles, selenite, or selenized algae

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 584-592

  Gallego Gallegos, Mercedes ^a   Doig, Lorne E ^a   Tse, Justin J ^a   Pickering, Ingrid J ^a   Liber, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SYSTEM; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICALLY INERT; BULK PHASIS; CHIRONOMUS; DIETARY EXPOSURE; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; ELEMENTAL SELENIUM; GRAPHITE FURNACES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROSCOPIES; LARVAL GROWTH; MILLING OPERATION; NANO PARTICULATES; NANO-SIZED PARTICLES; PISCIVOROUS BIRDS; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; SELENOMETHIONINE; UPTAKE ROUTE; URANIUM MINING;

ALGAE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; HEALTH RISKS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY; URANIUM; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

SELENIUM;

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SELENIUM NANOPARTICLE; SELENOMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALGA; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DIET; HEALTH RISK; INSECT; LARVA; MILLING; MINING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY; URANIUM; WATER UPTAKE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHIRONOMUS; CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; GRAPHITE FURNACE ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIET; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LARVA; NANOPARTICLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM; SELENOMETHIONINE; SODIUM SELENITE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

ALGAE; AVES; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871744659     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300828r     Document Type: Article

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