The role of skin biopsy in the detection of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in Mediterranean cetaceans

• Main Authors: FOSSI, MARIA CRISTINA, MARSILI, LETIZIA, NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA G.
• Other Authors: Fossi, MARIA CRISTINA, Marsili, Letizia, NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: biopsy sampling; pollutant; organochlorine; striped dolphin; bottlenose dolphin; common dolphin; fin whale; Basino; Balaenoptera physalus; Fin whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/7976

Use of skin biopsy is proposed as a sensitive non-lethal technique for the hazard assessment of Mediterranean cetaceans exposed to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). EDCs afe a structurally diverse group of compounds that may adversely affect the health of humans and wildlife or their progeny, b...