Toxicology of aquatic pollution : physiological, molecular and cellular approaches
When this book was first published in 1996, the pollution of the earth's freshwater habitats was, as it is now, a topic of major concern
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c1996
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| Series: | Society for experimental biology seminar series 57
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Water chemistry at the gill surfaces of fish and the uptake of xenobiotics
- 2. Bioaccumulation of waterborne, 1,2,4,5-tetrachlorobenzene in tissues of rainbow trout
- 3. Dietary exposure to toxic metals in fish
- 4. The physiology and toxicology of zinc in fish
- 5. Lethal and sub-lethal effects of copper upon fish: a role for ammonia toxicity?
- 6. The physiological status of brown trout exposed to aluminium in acidic soft waters
- 7. Physiological and metabolic costs of acclimation to chronic sub-lethal acid and aluminium exposure in rainbow trout
- 8. Physiological effects of nitrite in teleosts and crustaceans
- 9. Metallothioneins in fish: induction and use in environmental monitoring
- 10. Oestrogenic substances in the aquatic environment and their potential impact on animals, particularly fish
- 11. Effect of genetic toxicants in toxicants in organisms
- 12. In vitro toxicology of aquatic pollutants: use of cultured fish cells
- 13. Principles governing the use of cytochrome P4501A1 measurement as a pollution monitoring tool in the aquatic environment