Hepatic glutathione S-transferase activity in flounder collected from contaminated and reference sites along the Polish coast

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-363

  Napierska, Dorota ^a   Kopecka, Justyna ^b   Podolska, Magdalena ^a   Pempkowiak, Janusz ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Contamination; Field collected fish; Flounder; Glutathione S transferase; Platichthys flesus; Southern Baltic Sea

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME;

BIOMARKER; DATABASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLATFISH; PEPTIDE; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FLOUNDER; GONAD; LIVER; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC CELL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER; MALE; POLAND; SEX FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOBIOTICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF GDANSK;

PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 33749360224     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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