Dr. Christopher J. Kennedy, Aquatic Toxicology - Biological Sciences

Energetic Costs of Detoxification

Bains, O.S. and C.J. Kennedy. (2005). Alterations in respiration rates of isolated rainbow trout hepatocytes exposed to the P-glycoprotein substrate Rhodamine123. Toxicology. 214: 87-98.

Bains, O.S. and C.J. Kennedy. (2004). Energetic costs of pyrene metabolism in isolated hepatocyes of the rainbow trout, Oncorynchus mykiss. Aquat. Toxicol. 67:217-226.

Kennedy, C.J., D. Higgs and Tierney, K. (2004). Influence of diet and ration level on benzo[a]pyrene metabolism and excretion in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Arch. Env. Contam. Toxicol. 47: 379-386.

Morrow, M., D. Higgs and C.J. Kennedy. (2004). The effects of diet composition and ration on biotransformation enzymes and stress parameters in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C.137: 143-154.

Environmental and life history modulators of contaminant fate and toxicity

Farrell, A.P., C.J. Kennedy, and A. Kolok. (2004). Effects of wastewater from an oil sands refining operation on survival, hematology, gill histology and swimming of fathead minnows. Can. J. Zool. 82: 1519-1527.

Tierney, K.B., E. Stockner and C.J. Kennedy. (2004). Changes in immunological parameters and disease resistance in juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in response to dehydroabietic acid exposure under varying thermal conditions. Water Qual. Res. J. Can. 39: 176-184.

Kennedy, C.J., R. Loveridge and L. McDonald. (2000). The Effects of Selenium Contamination in Adult Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) Eggs, Larvae and Fry. Arch. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 39:46-52.

Seubert, J. and C.J. Kennedy. (2000). The toxicokinetics of benzo[a]pyrene in rainbow trout under varying salinity regimes. ( Arch. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 38:342-349.

Johnston, B., G. Alexander and C.J. Kennedy. (1999) A species comparison of the thermal modulation of benzo[a]pyrene toxicokinetics in isolated hepatocytes of sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), black rockfish (Sebastes melanops), and chub mackerel, (Scomber japonicus). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 124: 157-164. (PDF)

Contaminants and Stress

Kennedy, C.J. and A.P. Farrell. (2005). Ion homeostasis and interrenal stress responses in juvenile Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, exposed to the water-soluble fraction of crude oil. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 323: 43-56.

Tierney, K.B., A.P. Farrell and C.J. Kennedy. (2004). The differential leucocyte landscape of four teleosts: juvenile Oncorhynchus kisutch, Clupes pallasi, Culaea inconstans, and Pimephales promelas. J. Fish Biol. 65: 906-919.

Basu, N., C. Kennedy, P. Hodson and G. Iwama. (2002). Altered stress responses in rainbow trout following a dietary administration of cortisol and B-napthoflavone. Fish Physiol. Biochem.25:131-140.

Ecologically-relevant Sublethal Toxicities

Jarrard, H.E., K.R. Delaney, and C.J. Kennedy. (2004). Impacts of carbamate pesticides on olfactory neurophysiology and cholinesterase activity in Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Aquat. Toxicol. 69: 133-148.