Phenomenon of hepatic overload of copper in Mugil cephalus: Role of metallothionein and patterns of copper cellular distribution

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 230-235

  Linde, Ana Rosa ^a   Klein, Dominik ^b   Summer, Karl Heinz ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CADMIUM; COPPER; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN TROUT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; EEL; HOMEOSTASIS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER CYTOSOL; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEOST; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; COPPER; CYTOSOL; KIDNEY; LIVER; METALLOTHIONEIN; RIVERS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPAIN; TROUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

MUGIL CEPHALUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 26444468033     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2005.pto_56.x     Document Type: Article

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