Heavy metals affect the coelomocyte-bacteria balance in earthworms: Environmental interactions between abiotic and biotic stressors

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 373-381

  Olchawa, Ewa ^a   Bzowska, Malgorzata ^a   Stürzenbaum, Stephen R ^b   Morgan, A John ^b   Plytycz, Barbara ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cd; Coelomocytes; Cu; Dendrobaena veneta; Metallothionein; Zn

Indexed keywords

COELOMOCYTES; DENDROBAENA VENETA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

COPPER; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEAVY METALS; IMMUNOLOGY; IONS; ZINC;

BIODIVERSITY;

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; METAL ION; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC ION;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CADMIUM; EARTHWORM; PATHOGEN; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROBAENA VENETA; EARTHWORM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; UPREGULATION;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BODY BURDEN; CADMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DENDROBAENA VENETA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 32444443703     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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