Cellular responses to increasing Cd concentrations in the freshwater crab, Potamonautes warreni, harbouring microbial gill infestations

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 313, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-346

  Schuwerack, P Manuela M ^a,b   Lewis, John W ^b  

^a Britannia Royal Naval College   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular defence and behavioural responses; Crustacea; Freshwater crab; Increasing Cd pollution; Microbial gill infestation; Potamonautes warreni; Semi quantitative X ray microanalysis; TEM

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; CELL VACUOLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GILL; INFESTATION; MALE; MICROBIAL GILL INFESTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; POTAMONAUTES WARRENI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FRESH WATER; GILLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); POTAMONAUTES; POTAMONAUTES WARRENI;

EID: 0038291868     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-002-0677-x     Document Type: Article

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