The detection of biomarkers of genotoxin exposure in the European flounder (Platichthys flesus) collected from the River Tyne Estuary

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 446, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-119

  Lyons, B P ^a   Stewart, C ^a   Kirby, M F ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctr Environment Fish/Aquacult S   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

32P postlabelling; Bile metabolites; DNA adducts; Flounder (Platichthys flesus); Synchronous fluorescence spectrometry (SFS); Tyne Estuary

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; PHOSPHORUS 32; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; ESTUARY; FLOUNDER; GENOTOXICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIVER; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; BILE; DNA ADDUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOUNDER; FRESH WATER; GENETIC MARKERS; GREAT BRITAIN; LIVER; MUTAGENS; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INVERTEBRATA; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 0032702499     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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