Ecotoxicology between basic research and application: Using Metallothioneins (MTs) as biomarkers for environmental pollution;Umwelttoxikologie: Umwelttoxikologie im Spannungsfeld Zwischen Grundlagenforschung und Anwendung: Das Beispiel der Metallothioneine als Biomarker

Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Dallinger, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Copper; Cross talk; Extrinsic stressors; Finetuning; Gene expression; Intrinsic stressors; Metallothionein gene; Metallothionein induction; Oxidative stress; Promoter region; Stress response; Transcription factor; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GASTROPODA; HELICIDAE; HELIX POMATIA;

EID: 34247615563     PISSN: 09343504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/uwsf2007.03.177     Document Type: Article

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