Individual and mixture toxicity of commercial formulations containing glyphosate, metsulfuron-methyl, bispyribac-sodium, and picloram on rhinella arenarum tadpoles

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lajmanovich, Rafael C ^a,b   Junges, Celina M ^a,b   Attademo, Andrés M ^a,b   Peltzer, Paola M ^a,b   Cabagna Zenklusen, Mariana C ^b   Basso, Agustín ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Cholinesterase; Erythrocyte nuclear abnormalities; Herbicide mixtures

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BLOOD; MIXTURES; PYRIDINE; SODIUM; TOXICITY; WEED CONTROL;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AMPHIBIANS; BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE; ERYTHROCYTE NUCLEAR ABNORMALITIES; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES; HERBICIDE FORMULATION; METSULFURON METHYL;

HERBICIDES;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BISPYRIBAC SODIUM; CHOLINESTERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; METSULFURON METHYL; PICLORAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTOXICITY; HERBICIDE; PARAMETERIZATION; SOYBEAN; TOAD; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE NUCLEAR ABNORMALITY; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; GENOTOXICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NO OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; RHINELLA ARENARUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; TADPOLE; TOXICITY TESTING;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFONIDAE; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84873599358     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-012-1404-1     Document Type: Article

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