Use of Biomarkers for Environmental Quality Assessment

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CRC Press, 2000 M06 1 - 475 pages
This work is primarily designed for any person or organization in charge of assessment of the quality of natural resources and of pollution prevention.

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Contents

General survey of analytic techniques for detection
1
The concept of biomarker
2
Discussion
3
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAH
31
The North Sea monitoring programme
35
measurement of EROD
46
Conclusion
54
EROD induction in situ and its relation to chemical
60
Chapter 9
187
Use of Retinoids as Biomarkers
205
Effects of environmental contaminants on retinoid storage
212
Interpretation of fluctuations in retinoid levels
222
Chapter 11
229
Lysosomal responses to contaminants in indigenous
238
Chapter 12
247
Chapter 6
250

Summary and perspectives
70
Chapter 5
79
Examples of applications
97
Conclusion
104
Acetylcholinesterase
120
Use of cholinesterases in evaluating effects of OP pesticides
130
Biomarkers of Exposure of Birds and Small Mammals
139
Chapter 8
169
Limits of the use of biomarkers
179
Ecotoxicological significance of resistance
259
Introduction
269
Biomarkers and behaviour
279
ConclusionLimits to the use of biomarkers for predicting
291
Conclusion
303
Validation of the use of biomarkers in the monitoring
306
Index
313
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