Chicken embryonic cells (CEC) cultured in vitro were able to
withstand the toxicity of DDT at concentrations below 10μg/ml culture
medium. When the DDT concentration exceeded the toxic level, CEC
appeared vacuolated and lost the spindle-like fibroblastic appearance,
Gas chromatographic analysis had shown that the uptake of DDT (3μg/
ml'culture...
A single oral dose of DDT, ranging from 40 to 200 mg/kg, had
a drastic effect on the in vivo acetate metabolism in rats. The normal
elimination pattern of the expired ¹⁴CO₂ from ¹⁴C-labelled
acetate was distorted, and the rate of output of the ¹⁴CO₂ was decreased.
The ratio of...
In this thesis, we examined the effects of the exposures to anthropogenic pollutants on the fish, primarily juvenile chinook salmon, immune system using newly and recently developed immune assays. In addition, we developed a new assay for measuring immunocompetence of fish. In the first chapter, the Alamar Blue assay was...
