Sequential ultrastructural and biochemical changes induced in vivo by the hepatotoxic microcystins in liver of the phytoplanktivorous silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-367

  Li, Li ^a,b   Xie, Ping ^a,b   Li, Shixin ^c   Qiu, Tong ^a   Guo, Longgen ^a  

^a Institute of Hydrobiology   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biochemical; Detoxification; Glutathione; Microcystins; Pathological; Silver carp

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYANOGINOSIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARP; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS MOLITRIX; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICOKINETICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS MOLITRIX; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS NOBILIS;

EID: 34547144685     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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