Assessment of biological effects of environmental pollution along the NW Mediterranean Sea using mussels as sentinel organisms

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 236-250

  Zorita, Izaskun ^a   Apraiz, Itxaso ^a   Ortiz Zarragoitia, Maren ^a   Orbea, Amaia ^a   Cancio, Ibon ^a   Soto, Manu ^a   Marigómez, Ionan ^a   Cajaraville, Miren P ^a  

^a Biologia Zelularra eta Histologia Laborategia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring NW Mediterranean Sea; Lysosomal responses; Metallothioneins; Mytilus galloprovincialis; Peroxisome proliferation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOMARKERS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE BIOLOGY;

BIOMONITORING NW MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; LYSOSOMAL RESPONSES; METALLOTHIONEINS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATION;

POLLUTION;

ACYL COENZYME A OXIDASE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MARINE POLLUTION; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLLUSC; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAMETE; GONAD; LYSOSOME MEMBRANE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; POLLUTANT; SEA POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; LYSOSOMES; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALLOTHIONEIN; SHELLFISH;

BARCELONA [BARCELONA (PRV)]; BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GENOVA; ITALY; LIGURIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 34248173299     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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