Multiple biomarkers responses in Prochilodus lineatus allowed assessing changes in the water quality of Salado River basin (Santa Fe, Argentina)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3025-3033

  Cazenave, Jimena ^a   Bacchetta, Carla ^a   Parma, María J ^a   Scarabotti, Pablo A ^a   Wunderlin, Daniel A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LIMNOLOGÍA CONICET UNL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Fish; Hematology; Oxidative stress; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT ENZYME; AQUATIC SYSTEM; ARGENTINA; BIOMONITORING; CHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD STUDIES; GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE; HEMATOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION LEVELS; LIVER SOMATIC INDICES; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS MARKERS; RIVER BASINS; TOTAL PROTEIN; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

BIOMARKERS; BLOOD; CELLS; DECISION MAKING; ENZYMES; FISH; GLUCOSE; LIVER; MEATS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ANTIOXIDANT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLINESTERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; RIVER WATER;

BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; HEMATOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMOMETRICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GILL; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLLUTION MONITORING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHARACIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GILLS; LIVER; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; SALADO RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

PROCHILODUS LINEATUS;

EID: 68949201481     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.055     Document Type: Article

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