Biomedical subjects
G M Boush
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Total mercury content in yellowfin and bigeye tuna.
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Effect of pesticides and PCBs on budding rates of green hydra.
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Considerations and proposed experimental design for the safety evaluation of biological pesticides in nontarget species.
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Behavioral effects on juvenile rats from perinatal exposure to low levels of toxaphene, and its toxic components, toxicant A, and toxicant B.
Behavioral effects of toxaphene, and its toxic components, toxicant A and toxicant B, were studied by perinatally exposing juvenile rats. Toxaphene was given daily to pregnant rats (and their offspring) at 50 microgram/kg body weight via their diet. The daily dietary levels of toxicants A and B were 2.0 microgram/kg body weight. Behavioral tests were performed on the offspring. All rats fed toxaphene, as well as toxicants A and B, showed retarded maturation as judged by the swimming test during their early development. However, the treated rats eventually attained normal swimming ability. The maze retention test demonstrated significant differences between the toxicant A group and all other groups. The toxicant A animals had no difficulty in learning the test problems but were inferior to the other groups in retaining that knowledge.
Behavioral effects of perinatal exposure of chlordimeform in rats.
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Importance of water pH in accumulation of inorganic mercury in fish.
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Incorporation of 203 Hg into methylmercury in fish liver: Studies on biochemical mechanisms in vitro.
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DDT: inhibition of sodium chloride tolerance by the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans.
Anacystis nidulans, a freshwater blue-green alga, has been found to lerate sodium chloride (1 percent by weight) and DDT [1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis chlorophenyl) ethane] (800 parts per billion) separately, but growth was inhibited in the presence of both compounds. This inhibition was reversed by an increased calcium concentration. It is possible that inhibition of (Na+,K+)-activated adenosine triphosphatase) by DDT causes this species to lose the ability to lerate sodium chloride.
Factors influencing translocation and transformation of mercury in river sediment.
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Phenylmercuric acetate: metabolic conversion by microorganisms.
Phenylmercuric acetate, an organomercurial that has been widely used as a fungicide and slimicide, was found to be metabolized quickly by soil and aquatic microorganisms. One of the major metabolic products was identified to be diphenylmercury. In none of the cases has a methylmercury derivative been found among the microbial metabolic products of phenylmercuric acetate.
DDT metabolized by microorganisms from Lake Michigan.
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Clearance of 51Cr-labeled endotoxin from hemolymph of actively immunized Galleria mellonella.
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Formation of "photodieldrin" by microorganisms.
Photodieldrin, previously reported as the major conversion product of dieldrin by sunlight, was found among the metabolic products of dieldrin among microorganisms isolated from various environments including soil, water (Lake Michigan), rat intestines, and rumen stomach contents of a cow.
Time-lapse photographic studies of cockroach hemocyte migrations in vitro.
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Induction in vitro of proteins in the cultured tissue cells of Aedes aegypti.
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Fine structure of the hemocytes of Periplaneta americana (Orthoptera: Blattidae) with particular reference to marginal bundles.
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Degradation of endrin, aldrin, and DDT by soil microorganisms.
Twenty microbial cultures which had been shown to degrade dieldrin were tested to determine their ability to degrade endrin, aldrin, DDT, gamma isomers of benzenehexachloride (gamma-BHC), and Baygon. All isolates were able to degrade DDT and endrin, whereas 13 degraded aldrin. However, none of them was able to degrade Baygon or gamma-BHC.