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Physiological effects of toxic substances on wildlife species

Actually published in 1987. Only meeting year given on publication.
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Edited by: Peter Kacmar and J. Legath

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Abstract

Study of the physiological effects of contaminants on wildlife species has expanded as more sophisticated medical techniques are adapted to wildlife and as the mode of action of new classes of pesticides increase the number of organ systems which may be sublethally or lethally impacted. This paper summarizes some of the latest data published on toxicant affects on organ systems of warm-blooded vertebrates. Reporting on effects with enzyme systems concentrates on cholinesterase in blood and plasma after sublethal and lethal exposure to organophosphate end carbamate pesticides, but also covers, recent work with Na+, k+-ATPases, AST, AAT, and AL.AD. A discussion of recent work on hormones, biogenlc amines, and other compounds which indicate alteration of specific organ systems, is followed by examples of histopathological lesions associated both pathognomically and non-specifically with widely-used and/or severely toxic contaminants. All these specific effects and lesions are then discussed in terms of their potential for use diagnostically in field problems and their practical and possible impact on wildlife populations.

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Haseltine, S.D., 1983, Physiological effects of toxic substances on wildlife species, chap. of Collected Reports from the Czechoslovak-American Symposium on Toxic Effects of Chemical Environmental Contaminants upon Production and Reproduction Ability in Free-Living Animals (held October 3-4, 1983).

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Physiological effects of toxic substances on wildlife species
Year Published 1983
Language English
Publisher University of Veterinary Medicine
Publisher location Kosice, Czechoslovakia
Contributing office(s) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Description 273
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Other Government Series
Larger Work Title Collected Reports from the Czechoslovak-American Symposium on Toxic Effects of Chemical Environmental Contaminants upon Production and Reproduction Ability in Free-Living Animals (held October 3-4, 1983)
First page 53 (abs)
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