Biomarkers of Environmental Contamination

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McCarthy, Lee R. Shugart
CRC-Press, 1990 M09 10 - 457 páginas
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to and review of the state- of-science concerning the use of biological markers in animals and plants as an innovative approach to evaluating the ecological and health effects of environmental contamination. Specifically, the book examines the status of research on the development, application, and validation of biological markers, either as indicators of exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment or as predictors of the adverse consequences of that exposure.

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Biological Markers of Environmental Contamination John
3
Liver Structural Alterations Accompanying Chronic Toxicity
17
A Possible Monitor
59
The Croaker Nibea mitsukurii and the Sea Catfish Plotosus
73
Sublethal Responses of Platichthys stellatus to Organic
87
Environmental Physiological and Toxicological Variables
123
Avian Mixed Function Oxidase Induction as a Monitoring
143
Use of BarbiturateInduced Sleeping Time as an Indicator
151
MetalBinding Proteins and Peptides for the Detection of Heavy
239
Metallothionein as a Biomarker of Environmental Metal
255
A Potential Biomonitor of Exposure
267
Effect of Cadmium on Protein Synthesis in Gill Tissue of
289
Sentinel Species and Sentinel Bioassay W R Lower and R
309
Application of Bioindicators in Assessing the Health of Fish
333
A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Measures of Biological
355
Disease Biomarkers in Large Whale Populations of the North
395

Potential as Multitiered Biomarkers Brenda
165
Macrophage Responses of Estuarine Fish as Bioindicators
193
Testing for Genotoxicity Lee
205
DNA Adducts in Marine Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis
217
from Boston Harbor Gerald McMahon L Julie Huber
229
Use of Biomarkers in Ecological Risk Assessment Glenn
419
Implementation of a BiomarkerBased
429
List of Authors
441
Index
447
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