Polychlorinated biphenyls congeners

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Gooch, J.W., A.A. Elskus, PJ. Kloepper-Sams, M.E. Hahn, and JJ. Stegman. 1989. Effects of ortho- and non-orf/to-substituted polychlorinated biphenyl congeners on the hepatic monooxygenase system in scup (,Stenotomus chrysops). Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 98 422-433. 

Hoffman, D.J., M.J. Melancon, P.N. Klein, J.D. Eisemann, and J.W. Spann. 1998. Comparative developmental toxicity of planar polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in chickens, American kestrels, and common terns. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17 747-757. 

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Niimi, A.J. and B.G. Oliver. 1989. Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners and other halocarbons in whole fish and muscle among Lake Ontario salmonids. Environ. Sci. Technol. 23 83-88. 

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Van der Oost, R., H. Heida, and A. Opperhuizen. 1988. Polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in sediments, plankton, mollusks, crustaceans, and eel in a freshwater lake implications of using reference chemicals and indicator organisms in bioaccumulation studies. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 17 721-729. 

Oliver BG, Charlton MN, Durham RW. 1989. Distribution, redistribution, and geochronology of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners and other chlorinated hydrocarbons in Lake Ontario sediments. Environmental Science and Technology 23(2) 200-208. 

Figure 5. Densitiometric scans of electrophoretograms of hepatic microsomes from rainbow trout pretreated with polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (A), control microsomes, 90 fig protein/gel (B), 2,2, 4,4 -tetrachlorobiphenyl-induced microsomes, 90 fig protein/gel (C), 3,3, 4,4 -tetrachlorobiphenyl-induced microsomes, 90 fig protein/gel (D), Aroclor 1242-induced microsomes, 90 fig protein/ gel. The slab gels were stained with Coomassie Blue-250 and individual sample tracts were cut out and scanned at 550 nm. The vertical broken line is at 57,000...

For example, chloroanilines and polychlorinated biphenyl congeners have been shown to alter by microbially-mediated reductive dehalogenation in sediment/water systems, yielding less chlorinated congeners [38,48,52,68,105, 116,119,369-371]. 

Gilek, M. Bjork, M. NaF, C. 1996, Influence of body size on the uptake, depuration, and bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners by Baltic Sea blue mussels, Mvtilus edulis. Mar. Biol. 125 499-510. 

Bamford, H.A., Poster, D.L., and Baker, J.E. Henry s law constants of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners and their variation with temperature, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 45(6) 1069-1074, 2000. 

Dickhut, R.M., Andren, A.W., and Arnrstrong, D.E. Aqueous solubilities of six polychlorinated biphenyl congeners at fotrr temperatures. Environ. Set TechnoL, 20(8) 807-810, 1986. 

Li, A. and Doucette, W.J. The effect of cosolutes on the aqueous solubilities and octanol/water partition coefficients of selected polychlorinated biphenyl congeners. Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 12(ll) 2031-2035, 1993. 

Woodburn, K.B., Doucette, W.J., and Andren, A.W. Generator column determination of octanol/water partition coefficients for selected polychlorinated biphenyl congeners. Environ. Scl. Technol, 18(6) 457-459,1984. 

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