Mercury exposure and neurochemical biomarkers in multiple brain regions of Wisconsin River Otters (Lontra canadensis)

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-475

  Dornbos, Peter ^a   Strom, Sean ^b   Basu, Niladri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Methylmercury; Neurochemistry; Neurotoxicology; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MERCURY; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; BRAIN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUSTELID; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUR; HAIR; LIVER LEVEL; LONTRA CANADENSIS; MUSCLE LEVEL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OTTER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; HAIR; LIVER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OTTERS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WISCONSIN;

DEVON; ENGLAND; OTTER RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN RIVER;

LONTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876668418     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-013-1040-6     Document Type: Article

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