Assessment of the impact of heavy metal pollution from a ferro-nickel smelting plant using biomarkers

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-243

  Tsangaris, Catherine ^a   Papathanasiou, Evangelos ^a   Cotou, Efthimia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Biomarker; Glutathione peroxidase; Metals; Mytilus galloprovincialis; Pollution effects; Scope for growth; X ray microanalysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHROMIUM; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HEAVY METAL; IRON; NICKEL;

BIOMARKER; BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; MUSSEL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; KIDNEY; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MYTILUS; PROTEINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

AEGEAN SEA; CENTRAL GREECE; EURASIA; EUROPE; EVOIKOS GULF; GREECE; LARYMNA BAY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHTHIOTIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 33751520251     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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