Relationship of Blood Mercury Levels to Health Parameters in the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)

BACKGROUND: Mercury is a pervasive environmental pollutant whose toxic effects have not been studied in sea turtles in spite of their threatened status and evidence of immunosuppression in diseased populations. OBJECTIVES: In the present study we investigate mercury toxicity in loggerhead sea turtle...

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Autores principales: Day, Rusty D., Segars, Al L., Arendt, Michael D., Lee, A. Michelle, Peden-Adams, Margie M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2022655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17938730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9918

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