"Evaluation of ecotoxicity and fate of methylated butyltins in sediments and seawater from Tokyo Bay, Japan"

Ryo Kurihara^１, Fujio Shiraishi², Ramaswamy Babu Rajendram³, Hiroaki Tao³, Fumio Horiguchi³, Kisaburo Nakata³, Shinya Hashimoto^１  

^１Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka 
²National institute for Environmental Studies
³National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol.26 No.12 pp2560-pp2566 (2007/7)

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Abstract

低濃度な有機スズ化合物も測定可能な超高感度分析法を用いて、これまで存在量が殆ど明らかとなっていない揮発性の高いメチル化された有機スズ化合物に焦点を当て、東京湾の汚染の現状及び毒性について評価した結果についてまとめた。

Keywords

Methylated butyltin, Tokyo Bay, Retinoid X receptor activation, Marine pollution, Gas chromatography/inductively coupled plasuma mass spctrometry