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Biological effects of contaminants: Quantification of metallothionein (MT) in fish liver tissue.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)This document describes methods to analyse the protein metallothionein in fish tissues. Metallothionein is induced by and binds essential (Cu, Zn) and non-essential (Cd, Hg) metals and is used in monitoring programmes as ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Use of imposex in the dogwhelk (Nucella lapillus) as a bioindicator of tributyltin pollution.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)This document describes a method for detecting contamination of the marine environment by tributyltin (TBT) using a sensitive neogastropod, the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus (L.), as a bioindicator. Exposure of female N. ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Determination of CYP1A-dependent mono-oxygenase activity in dab by fluorimetric measurement of EROD activity.
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Chlorobiphenyls in marine sediments: Guidelines for determination.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998)The analysis of chlorinated biphenyls in sediments generally includes extraction with organic solvents, clean-up, removal of sulphur, colullUl fractionation and gas chromatographic separation, mostly with electron capture ... -
Temporal trend monitoring: Robust method for analysing contaminant trend monitoring data.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998)This document describes a new method of assessing contaminant trends in fish muscle, fish liver, and shellfish. Previous methods of assessing trend data have often been complicated by the need to respond to unusual ... -
Control procedures: Good laboratory practice and quality assurance.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) is one of the manifestations of the increased attention being paid to quality control measures in general. It provides a framework designed to bring the quality ... -
Primary production: Guidlines for measurement by 14C incorporation.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)In the years intervening between the preparation and publication of this do- cument, at least two other manuals for use in making primary production de- terminations have been introduced (Nie ... -
Lipophilic organic material: An apparatus for extracting solids used for their concentration from sea water.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)Lipophilic organic substances, whether man-made, mobilized by human activities, or of recent natural origin, are usually dissolved in sea water at such minute concentrations that the chemical c ... -
Cadmium in marine sediments: Determination by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)Cadmium is one of the most important toxic elements to be determined in environmental samples. Cd has proved, however, to be a difficult element to determine with good precision and relative ... -
Protocol for measuring dioxin-like activity in environmental sample using in vitro reporter gene dr-luc assays.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013)Guidelines are given for the quantification of the dioxin-like activities of contaminants in sediment, biota and water samples using the DR-Luc reporter gene bioassay. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds demonstrate high ... -
Oyster embryo-larval bioassay (revised).
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013)The description of the oyster (Crassostrea gigas) embryo bioassay was initially published in the ICES TIMES series in 1991 (No.11). At the time, the bioassay was used in the United Kingdom for measuring water quality in ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin embryo test with marine sediment elutriates.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012)This ICES Techniques in Marine Environmental Sciences describes a sediment elutriate bioassay using embryos of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, a species widely distributed in both Atlantic and European Mediterranean ... -
Trace metals in sea water: Sampling and storage methods.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)Sampling procedures for dissolved trace metals in sea water have progressed to the extent that it is now possible to describe reliable methods for the collection, preservation, and storage of ... -
Determination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in biota and sediment.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012)Polychlorinated dibenzo‐p‐dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental contaminants regulated by the Stockholm Convention of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Being ... -
Cadmium and lead: Determination in organic matrices with electrothermal furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)Experience has shown that atomic absorption analyses of lead and cadmium with pulsed-type graphite furnaces such as the Massmann design (Massmann, 1968) often are subject to various kinds of s ... -
Supporting variables for biological effects measurements in fish and blue mussel.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017)Biological effects measurements in fish and blue mussel are fundamental in marine environmental monitoring. Nevertheless, currently used biomarkers may be confounded by basic physiological phenomena, such as growth, ... -
Guidelines for determining polymer-water and polymer-polymer partition coefficients of organic compounds.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017)Methods for the experimental determination of polymer-water partition coefficients (Kpw) and polymer-polymer partition coefficients (Kp1p2) are reviewed with the aim to improve the quality of passive sampling-based monitoring ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Assessing DNA damage in marine species through single-cell alkaline gel electrophoresis (comet) assay.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016)Single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE or comet) assay allows quantification of DNA damage in individual cells and is an ideal tool for use within biological monitoring programmes. Comet assay can be used on a range of cell ... -
Common diseases and parasites of fish in the North Atlantic: Training guide for identification.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996)During the past 20 years, there has been an increasing number of field surveys investigating the occurrence and distribution of fish diseases as a tool for monitoring the effects of environme ... -
Contaminants in marine organisms: Pooling strategies for monitoring mean concentrations.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996)Samples of marine organisms collected for contaminant monitoring are often pooled before being chemically analysed. The main reasons for pooling samples are: 1) to obtain a sufficient quantity ...
