Subcellular distribution and potential detoxification mechanisms of mercury in the liver of the Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) in Amamioshima Island, Japan

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1354-1360

  Horai, Sawako ^a,b   Furukawa, Tatsuhiko ^a   Ando, Tetsuo ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^a   Takeda, Yasuo ^a   Yamada, Katsushi ^a   Kuno, Katsuji ^b   Abe, Shintaro ^c   Watanabe, Izumi ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Japan Ministry of the Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demethylation; Mercury localization; Microsome; Plasma membrane; Thioredoxin reductase 2

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CHROMIUM; CORRELATION METHODS; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; IRON; LANDFORMS; LEAD; LIVER; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MECHANISMS; MEMBRANES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMA (HUMAN); PLASMAS; POLLUTION; PROTEINS; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; STRESSES; ZINC;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; CYTOSOL; GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE (GST); MERCURY(III); MITOCHONDRIAL OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMA MEMBRANE (PM); POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROTECTIVE ENZYMES; SOPHISTICATED MECHANISM; SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATIONS; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (TRXR); WESTERN-BLOT ANALYSIS;

MERCURY (METAL);

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 2; ZINC;

BIOASSAY; DETOXIFICATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARNIVORA; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROTECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSOL; DETOXIFICATION; JAPAN; LIVER MICROSOME; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; HERPESTIDAE; JAPAN; LIVER; MERCURY; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG;

AMAMI ISLAND; AMAMI ISLANDS; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

HERPESTES JAVANICUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 45249103535     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-370.1     Document Type: Article

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