Cytochrome P450 activity in green frogs (Rana clamitans melanota) exposed to water and sediments in the Fox River and Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 955-962

  Jung, R E ^a   Karasov, W H ^b   Melancon, M J ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1A; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FROG; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TADPOLE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LARVA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RANIDAE; RIVERS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CANIDAE; RANA CLAMITANS MELANOTA;

EID: 13444254025     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0519-5     Document Type: Article

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