Application of two SH-based methods for metallothionein determination in mussels and intercalibration of the spectrophotometric method: Laboratory and field studies in the Mediterranean Sea

Biomarkers

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 342-359

  Zorita, I ^a   Strogyloudi, E ^b   Buxens, A ^a   Mazon L I ^a   Papathanassiou, E ^b   Soto, M ^a   Cajaraville, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cadmium exposure; Differential pulse polarography; Digestive gland; Mediterranean Sea; Metallothionein quantification; Mussel; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; ISOPROTEIN; METAL DERIVATIVE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE POLAROGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEA POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CALIBRATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS; POLAROGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 28244498692     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: 13665804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13547500500264645     Document Type: Article

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