Bovine calves as ideal bio-indicators for fluoridated drinking water and endemic osteo-dental fluorosis

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4493-4498

  Choubisa, S L ^a  

^a Government Meera Girls College   (India)

Author keywords

Bio indicators; Bovine calves; Camelids. Equines; Endemic osteo dental fluorosis; Flocks; Fluoridated drinking water

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

BOVINE CALVES; CAMELIDS. EQUINES; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DENTAL FLUOROSIS; DIVERSE SPECIES; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; ENDEMIC OSTEO-DENTAL FLUOROSIS; FLOCKS;

MAMMALS;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE;

BIOINDICATOR; DRINKING WATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FLUORIDE; POISONING; RUMINANT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BOS TAURUS; CALF (BOVINE); CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DENTAL FLUOROSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOMESTIC GOAT; DOMESTIC HORSE; DOMESTIC SHEEP; DONKEY; DROMEDARY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXOSTOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; FLUOROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOFLUOROSIS; PERIOSTEUM; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TENDON; TENDON STIFFNESS; TOOTH; WATER BUFFALO; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HORSES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; TOOTH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84902366287     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3713-x     Document Type: Article

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