Metallothionein-like proteins in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus: Effect of water salinity and ions

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 366-371

  De Martinez Gaspar Martins, Camila ^a   Bianchini, Adalto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calcium; Callinectes sapidus; Gills; Hepatopancreas; Hypo osmotic stress; Metallothioneins; Salinity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN LIKE PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUE CRAB; CONTROLLED STUDY; GILL; HEPATOPANCREAS; HYPOOSMOTIC STRESS; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; SALINITY; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE PERFUSION;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 61349104311     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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