The toxicity of silver nanoparticles to zebrafish embryos increases through sewage treatment processes

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1264-1277

  Muth Köhne, Elke ^a   Sonnack, Laura ^a   Schlich, Karsten ^a   Hischen, Florian ^b   Baumgartner, Werner ^b   Hund Rinke, Kerstin ^a   Schäfers, Christoph ^a   Fenske, Martina ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sewage treatment processes; Silver; Silver nanoparticles; Toxicity; Zebrafish embryo

Indexed keywords

SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NITRATE;

CYPRINID; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; EMBRYO; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SILVER; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; MOTONEURON; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YOLK SAC; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; SILVER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84885421286     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-013-1114-5     Document Type: Article

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