Heavy Metal Pollution Research : Recent Advances

Contents Preface. 1. Heavy metal pollution toxic effects and control strategies/Arvind Kumar C. Bohra and H. Ali. 2. Heavy metal pollution in marine and estuarine environment the case of north and south 24 parganas districts of coastal West Bengal/Sutapa Das Abhijit Mitra Kakoli Banerjee Debarati Mukherjee and D.P. Bhattacharya. 3. Heavy metal toxicity and bio accumulation a critical appraisal/Bharat Bhusan Patnaik J. Hongray Howrelia and M. Selvanayagam. 4. Heavy metal accumulation in seaweeds in polluted and unpolluted estuaries/K. Sasikumar and A.N. Subramaniyan. 5. Heavy metal levels in freshwater Bivalve Mollusc Lamellidens corrianus from Nandrabad swamp near Aurangabad/S.S. Patil. 6. A review of the heavy metal toxicity on the freshwater fishes/M. Aruchami A.A. Sivakumar and R. Thangam. 7. Occurrence of heavy metals in Tapi river water and sediments at Bhusawal region/R.B. Dhake and S.T. Ingle. 8. Bioaccumulation of mercury in Uppanar estuary Cuddalore southeast coast of India/R. Rajaram and M. Srinivasan. 9. Toxic effect of high chromium intake on the human body and chromium removal from water with low cost adsorbents/Jyotsna Lal and Kanchan Sachan. 10. Metal ion stabilization of alpha amylase activity in Opuntia vulgaris/B. Nabi and K. Srikmumar. 11. Phytotoxicity of copper and lead in leafy vegetable Amaranth (Amaranthus oleraceous)/M.I.S. Saggoo N. Verma and P. Sharma. 12. Bioaccumulation of chromium trioxide and its effect on blood glucose glycogen content and LDH activity in the fish Tilapia mossambica/R. Thangam and A.A. Sivakumar. 13. Effect of sublethal concentration of copper on the selected organs of an estuarine fish Mystus gulio (Hamilton)/S.V.S. Amanulla Hameed K. Muthukumaravel A. Subramanian and N. Mayilvakanan. 14. Impact of textile wastewater on Raphanus sativus Var. Pusa Reshmi a pot experiment with special emphasis on analysis of heavy metals/Richa Marwari T.I. Khan and H.S. Sharma. 15. Bioaccumulation of metals in different food fishes in wastewater fed wetlands/Paulomi Maiti and Samir Banerjee. 16. Cadmium chloride effects on thyroid and gonads of the fish Channa orientalis (Sch.)/S.V. Deshmukh and K.M. Kulkarni. 17. Heavy metal concentrations in the edible crab Scylla serrata in the Malancha region of Indian Sundarbans/Kakoli Banerjee Abhijit Mitra Rajib Chakraborty Anumita Das and Debarati Mukherjee. 18. Histological alterations in tadpoles of Bufo melanostictus exposed to a sublethal concentration of chromium/D. Anusuya D.J. Prakash and I. Christy. 19. Cadmium and lead level in a semi urban area and their poisoning effect/M.K. Paul and A.K. Misra. 20. Impact of cadmium chloride on the behaviour and AChE activity of a freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus Peters/Lingaraj Patro Meenakshi Mishra and A.K. Panigrahi. 21. Bioaccumulation of trace metals in marine algae (Chaetomorpha) at Tharangambadi coast south east coast of India/P. Martin Deva Prasath. 22. Acute toxicity and behavioural responses to nickel sulphate to the fish Heteropneustes Fossilis/M. Choudhary and M.M. Jha. 23. Removal of heavy metals from electroplating industrial effluent using plants phytoremediation/S. Anitha V. Mahesh and C. Sheela Sasikumar. 24. Concentrations of heavy metals in Penaeus spp. of brackishwater wetland ecosystem of West Bengal India/A. Mitra T. Mandal and D.P. Bhattacharyya. 25. Chemical impact on the histological studies on the thyroid in the freshwater fish Channa orientalis (Sch.)/S.V. Deshmukh and K.M. Kulkarni. Index. 312 pp. …