The activities of superoxide disumtase, catalase and ascorbic acid content in the liver of goldfish (Carassius auratus gibelio Bloch.) exposed to cadmium

Physiological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 479-481

  Zikic R V ^a   Stajn, A ^a   Saicic, Z S ^b   Spasic, M B ^b   Ziemnicki, K ^c   Petrovic, V M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Faculty of Biology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Cadmium; Catalase; Goldfish; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CADMIUM; CATALASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLDFISH; LIVER; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CADMIUM; CATALASE; GOLDFISH; LIVER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030484080     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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