Avoidance of aluminum toxicity in freshwater snails involves intracellular silicon-aluminum biointeraction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2189-2194

  White, Keith N ^a   Ejim, Abraham I ^a   Walton, Rachel C ^a   Brown, Andrew P ^b   Jugdaohsingh, Ravin ^c   Powell, Jonathan J ^c   Mccrohan, Catherine R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CELLS; DETOXIFICATION; TOXICITY;

DETOXIFICATORY ORGAN; INTRACELLULAR MECHANISM;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ALUMINUM; SILICON;

ALUMINUM; CELLS; DETOXIFICATION; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; TOXICITY;

ALUMINUM; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; SILICON; SNAIL;

ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONVALESCENCE; DETOXIFICATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EX VIVO STUDY; EXOCRINE GLAND; IN VIVO STUDY; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SNAIL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; LYMNAEA; LYSOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SILICIC ACID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 41849144524     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7028608     Document Type: Article

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