Quantification of metallothionein by differential pulse polarography overestimates concentrations in crustaceans

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8426-8432

  Pedersen, Knud L ^a   Pedersen, Søren N ^a   Knudsen, Jens ^a   Bjerregaard, Poul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SORPTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SHELLFISH; TISSUE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; CARCINUS MAENAS; CYTOSOLIC; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE POLAROGRAPHIES; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISONS; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; INTERFERING COMPOUNDS; METAL CONTAMINATIONS; METALLOTHIONEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ASSAYS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

METALLOTHIONEIN; TISSUE EXTRACT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; CADMIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNOASSAY; METALLOTHIONEIN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRUSTACEA; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE POLAROGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALLOTHIONEIN; POLAROGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEAWATER;

CARCINUS MAENAS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; CARCINUS MAENAS; CYTOSOLIC; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE POLAROGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAYS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; INTERFERING COMPOUNDS; METAL CONTAMINATION; METALLOTHIONEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ASSAYS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 56449108648     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8013584     Document Type: Article

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