Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - APPENDIX doc
... (ERL-D-SOP- CTI-016), Chironomus tentans (ERL-D-SOP-CTI-015), and Lumbriculus variegatus (ERL-D-SOP-CTI-017), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory, ... Ministry of Environ- ment, Lands, and Parks, Province of British Columbia, B.C., pp. F-1 to F-13. BCEPD. 1994c. Appendix 3: SEAM laboratory codes. British Columbia Environmental Lab-...
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... in toxicant concentrations or interspecific inter- actions. The range of scales important in environmental toxicology range from the few angstroms of molecular interactions to the hundreds of ... and detoxi - cation in some cases and toxicity in others. Figure 2.1 The three functions of environmental toxicology. Only three basic functions need to be described af...
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... repeatable laboratory data to effects upon the systems that environmental toxi- cology tries to protect is often called the lab -to- field dilemma. Comparisons of laboratory data to field results ... variety of forms, from the dynamics of populations to the genetic sequence of mitochondria, it is necessary to be able to incorporate each of these types of data into...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 4 pdf
... used in toxicity testing when attempting to compare results. Algal 96-H Growth Toxicity Test The purpose of this toxicity test is to examine the toxicity of materials to a variety of freshwater ... components of the microcosm com- munity. The protocol requires two species of single-celled green algae or diatoms, one species of filamentous green alga, one species of nitr...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 6 docx
... liver to 25-hydroxy-D 3 . This is then converted in the kidney to 1,25-dihydroxy-D 3 , the “hormone-like” substance that is the active form of the vitamin. The 25-hydroxyla- tion of cholecalciferol ... sensitive to CHCl 3 . Death often results following their exposure to this chemical. The higher sensitivity of male mice to certain toxic chemicals may be due to...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 8 pdf
... amounts to 15 to 25 mg/day and represents two-thirds of the total absorbed Pb. By contrast, about 20 to 40% of the inhaled Pb is absorbed, amounting to about 8 mg/day, or one-third of the total absorbed ... coordination. The relative toxicity of various compounds toward tissue depends on their relative ease of for- mation of the Hg 2+ ion. The biological half-life of...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 9 potx
... able to hydrolyze DFP, dichlorvos and dimethyl 2,2,2-trichloro-1-n-butyryloxyethyl phosphonate (butonate). Catfish enzymes also were able to hydrolyze paraoxon and methyl 3-hydroxy-alpha-cronate, ... be the sites of toxic action, however. For example, lead is stored primarily in the bone, but acts mainly on the soft tissues of the body. If the storage site is not the site of toxic ac...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 10 docx
... of the Ecological Effects of Toxicants INTRODUCTION This chapter deals with perhaps the most difficult topic in environmental toxi- cology, how to measure and then evaluate the impact of toxicants ... vector. Consumption vector for species A. is the sum of the vectors for the rate of consumption of resource 1 and resource 2. The consump- tion vector determines the path o...
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Introduction to ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems - CHAPTER 11 doc
... Relationship of toxicity data from one species to another or perhaps more often, class to class. Often only a 96-h green algal toxicity test is available to use as a representative of all photosynthetic ... Relationship between two toxicity endpoints such as the NOAEL and the EC 50 . 3. Laboratory -to- field extrapolation — Relationship of the estimate of toxicity gath- ered...
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Introduction to Modeling and Control of Internal Combustion Engine Systems P1 potx
... Zürich ETH-Zentrum Switzerland E-mail: onder@ethz.ch ISBN 97 8-3 -6 4 2-1 077 4-0 e-ISBN 97 8-3 -6 4 2-1 077 5-7 DOI 10.1007/97 8-3 -6 4 2-1 077 5-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940323 c 2010 Springer-Verlag ... bar preferred range of operation -1 5 -1 0 -5 0 5 -1 5 -1 0 -5 0 5 p cr start of injection [deg CA] start of injection [d...
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