Detection of microcystins, a blue-green algal hepatotoxin, in drinking water sampled in Haimen and Fusui, endemic areas of primary liver cancer in China, by highly sensitive immunoassay

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1317-1321

  Ueno, Yoshio ^a   Nagata, Satoshi ^a   Tsutsumi, Tomoaki ^a   Hasegawa, Akihiro ^a   Watanabe, Mariyo F ^b   Park, Ho Dong ^c   Chen, Gong Chao ^d   Chen, Gang ^e   Yu, Shun Zhang ^e  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Haimen City Hlth/Anti Epidem Stn ^*  (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN; DRINKING WATER; RIVER WATER; WELL WATER;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHINA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER TOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHINA; CYANOBACTERIA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROCYSTINS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030006616     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.6.1317     Document Type: Article

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