Heavy metal (As, Cd, Hg, Pb, Cu, Zn, Se) concentrations in muscle and bone of four commercial fish caught in the central Adriatic Sea, Italy

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2205-2213

  Perugini, Monia ^a   Visciano, Pierina ^a   Manera, Maurizio ^a   Zaccaroni, Annalisa ^b   Olivieri, Vincenzo ^c   Amorena, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ASL Pescara   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biometry; Merluccius merluccius; Metal pollution; Micromesistius poutassou; Mullus barbatus; Scomber scombrus

Indexed keywords

BONE; CADMIUM; COPPER; FISH; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ZINC;

BIOMETRY; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; METAL POLLUTION; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU; MULLUS BARBATUS; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS;

POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMETRY; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PELAGIC FISH; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FISH; ITALY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE LEVEL; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; SEA;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU; MULLUS BARBATUS; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; ITALY; METALS, HEAVY; MUSCLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84895802999     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3530-7     Document Type: Article

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