Influence of mercury from fly ash on cattle reared nearby thermal power plant

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7365-7372

  Mahajan, Vikas Eknath ^a   Yadav, Raju Ravindra ^b   Dakshinkar, Narayan Purushottam ^a   Dhoot, Vinod Madanlal ^a   Bhojane, Gautam Ramkrishna ^a   Naik, Madhura Kiran ^b   Shrivastava, Preeti ^b   Naoghare, Pravin Krishnarao ^b   Krishnamurthi, Kannan ^b  

^a NAGPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE   (India)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cattle; Fly ash; Mercury; Thermal power plant

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; BLOOD UREA; CATTLE; CATTLE GRAZING; COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS; FOOD CHAIN; HEALTH EFFECTS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS; HUMAN POPULATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; MERCURY (METAL); THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

FLY ASH;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM ION; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; MERCURY; NITROGEN; UREA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CATTLE; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLY ASH; HEALTH IMPACT; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); THERMAL POWER;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FLY ASH; FOOD CHAIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAZING; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MILK; MILK LEVEL; NONHUMAN; THERMAL POWER PLANT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CATTLE; COAL ASH; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER PLANTS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84871832939     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2505-9     Document Type: Article

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