Cadmium is deposited in the gut content of larvae of the beetle Tenebrio molitor and involves a Cd-binding protein of the low cysteine type

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-222

  Pedersen, S A ^a   Kristiansen, E ^a   Andersen, R A ^a   Zachariassen, K E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cd binding protein; Coleoptera; Cysteine; Metal detoxification; Metallothionein; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE; LARVA; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TISSUE LEVEL;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 49149131009     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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