Mercury in pilot whales: Possible limits to the detoxification process

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 95-104

  Caurant, Florence ^a,c   Navarro, Miguel ^b   Amiard, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ISOMer   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Marine mammals; Mercury; Metallothionein; Selenium

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; PROTEIN; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMETHYLATION; ECOTOXICITY; FEMALE; LIVER; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029885097     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05087-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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