Heavy metals and metalloid accumulation in livers and kidneys of wild rats around gold-mining communities in Tarkwa, Ghana

Nesta Bortey-Sam; Shouta M. M. Nakayama; Yoshinori Ikenaka; Osei Akoto; Elvis Baidoo; Hazuki Mizukawa; Mayumi Ishizuka*

doi:10.5897/JECE2016.0374

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Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

Abbreviation: J. Environ. Chem. Ecotoxicol.
Language: English
ISSN: 2141-226X
DOI: 10.5897/JECE
Start Year: 2009
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Heavy metals and metalloid accumulation in livers and kidneys of wild rats around gold-mining communities in Tarkwa, Ghana

Nesta Bortey-Sam

Nesta Bortey-Sam
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Shouta M. M. Nakayama

Shouta M. M. Nakayama
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Yoshinori Ikenaka

Yoshinori Ikenaka
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Osei Akoto

Osei Akoto
Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Elvis Baidoo

Elvis Baidoo
Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Hazuki Mizukawa

Hazuki Mizukawa
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Mayumi Ishizuka*

Mayumi Ishizuka*
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Article Number - D44277B59394
Vol.8(7), pp. 58-68 , July 2016
https://doi.org/10.5897/JECE2016.0374

Received: 25 February 2016
Accepted: 27 May 2016
Published: 31 July 2016

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Authors

Nesta Bortey-Sam
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Shouta M. M. Nakayama
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Yoshinori Ikenaka
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Osei Akoto
Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Elvis Baidoo
Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Hazuki Mizukawa
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Mayumi Ishizuka*
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

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