Oxidative stress and antioxidant defenses in two green microalgae exposed to copper

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1200-1206

  Sabatini, Sebastián E ^a,b   Juárez, Ángela B ^a   Eppis, Maria R ^c   Bianchi, Laura ^c   Luquet, Carlos M ^d   Ríos de Molina, María del Carmen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Catalase; Chlorella kessleri; Copper content; Lipid peroxidation; Metabolic damage; Oxidative stress; Reduced glutathione; Scenedesmus vacuolatus; Superoxide dismutase; Total reflection X ray fluorescence (TXRF)

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B; COPPER;

ANTIOXIDANT; CHLOROPHYLL; COPPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GREEN ALGA; LIPID; MICROALGA; PEPTIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; GREEN ALGA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SCENEDESMUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; CHELATING AGENTS; CHLORELLA; CHLOROPHYLL; COPPER; EDETIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SCENEDESMUS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

PARACHLORELLA KESSLERI; SCENEDESMUS VACUOLATUS;

EID: 64649105034     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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