Associations between Organochlorine Contaminant Concentrations and Clinical Health Parameters in Loggerhead Sea Turtles from North Carolina, USA
Open Access
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 112 (10), 1074-1079
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6923
Abstract
Widespread and persistent organochlorine (OC) contaminants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pesticides, are known to have broad-ranging toxicities in wildlife. In this study we investigated, for the first time, their possible health effects ...Keywords
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