Heavy metal accumulation and metallothionein concentration in the frog Rana ridibunda after exposure to chromium or a mixture of chromium and cadmium

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 787-792

  Loumbourdis, N S ^a   Kostaropoulos, Iason ^a   Theodoropoulou, Basiliki ^a   Kalmanti, Dimitra ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Chromium; Detoxification; Frogs; Metallothioneins

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMIUM; DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

FROGS; METALLOTHIONEINS;

HEAVY METALS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETOXIFICATION; FROG; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FROG; INGESTION; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LIVER; METALLOTHIONEIN; RANA RIDIBUNDA;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA RIDIBUNDA;

EID: 33846420274     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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