Lead induced thyroid dysfunction and lipid peroxidation in the fish Clarias batrachus with special reference to hepatic type I-5′-monodeiodinase activity

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 649-654

  Chaurasia, S S ^a   Gupta, P ^a   Kar, A ^a   Maiti, P K ^a  

^a DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATRACHOIDES; CLARIAS BATRACHUS; ANIMALIA;

LEAD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEIODINATION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; LEAD POISONING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; THYROID FUNCTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MITOGENS; NITRATES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; THIOBARBITURATES; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030028613     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900095     Document Type: Article

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