Dissolved microcystins in surface and ground waters in regions with high cancer incidence in the Huai River Basin of China

Chemosphere

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1064-1071

  Tian, Dajun ^a   Zheng, Weiwei ^a   Wei, Xiao ^a   Sun, Xin ^b   Liu, Li ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Zhou, Yin ^a   Chen, Hanyi ^a   Zhang, Hongmei ^a   Wang, Xia ^a   Zhang, Rongjie ^b   Jiang, Songhui ^a   Zheng, Yuxin ^b   Yang, Gonghuan ^b   Qu, Weidong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Huai River; Microcystins; Surface water

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAKES; PHASE SEPARATION; RIVERS; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS;

BEST-FIT MODELS; HUAI RIVERS; MICROCYSTINS; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; SURFACE AND GROUND WATERS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; LAKE WATER; MICROCYSTIN; SURFACE WATER; WELL WATER;

CANCER; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISK; LINEARITY; PEPTIDE; POND; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; TOXIN; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHINA; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER BASIN; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA; HUAI RIVER;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MICROCYSTINS; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884376500     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.01.051     Document Type: Article

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