Laboratory Scale Microbial Food Chain to Study Bioaccumulation, Biomagnification, and Ecotoxicity of Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1695-1706

  Gupta, Govind S ^a,b   Kumar, Ashutosh ^a   Senapati, Violet A ^a   Pandey, Alok K ^b   Shanker, Rishi ^a   Dhawan, Alok ^b  

^a AHMEDABAD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHAINS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; NANOCRYSTALS;

BIOMAGNIFICATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; CADMIUMS (CD); DOUBLING TIME; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); TROPHIC TRANSFER;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; TELLURIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TELLURIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIVORY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CHAIN; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; STOICHIOMETRY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYXOZOA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CHAIN; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARAMECIUM; QUANTUM DOTS; TELLURIUM;

EID: 85011675386     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03950     Document Type: Article

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