Variation of microcystins, cyanobacterial hepatotoxins, in Anabaena spp. as a function of growth stimuli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2206-2212

  Rapala, Jarkko ^a   Sivonen, Kaarina ^a,b   Lyra, Christina ^a   Niemelä, Seppo I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Dept of Appl Chem and Microbiol ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOGINOSIN; DRINKING WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHORUS;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYANOBACTERIUM; HEALTH HAZARD; LIVER TOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANABAENA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0030994088     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2206-2212.1997     Document Type: Article

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