Uptake and depuration of cadmium, nickel, and lead in laboratory-exposed Tubifex tubifex and corresponding changes in the concentration of a metallothionein-like protein

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-85

  Gillis, Patricia L ^a,b,c   Dixon, D George ^b   Borgmann, Uwe ^a   Reynoldson, Trefor B ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gut clearance; Metal depuration; Metal uptake; Metallothionein like protein; Tubifex tubifex

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTEINS; SEDIMENTS; TISSUE;

FIRST-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; METAL DEPURATION;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

CADMIUM; LEAD; METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN LIKE PROTEIN; NICKEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEDIMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; LEAD; METALLOTHIONEIN; NICKEL; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANNELIDA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; TUBIFICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346098289     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-415     Document Type: Article

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