Role of Exogenous Reduced Glutathione on Time Dependent 203Hg Distribution in Liver and Kidney of a Freshwater Teleost, Anabas testudineus

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-64

  Sarkar, Debapriya ^a   Das, Debaprasad ^a   Bhattacharya, Shelley ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ISOTOPE LABELING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURIALISM; METABOLISM; PERCH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FRESH WATER; GLUTATHIONE; ISOTOPE LABELING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; MERCURY POISONING; PERCHES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0031086461     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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