Environmental genotoxicity and cytotoxicity in the offshore zones of the Baltic and the North Seas

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 246-256

  Rybakovas, Aleksandras ^a   Baršiene, Janina ^a   Lang, Thomas ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Federal Research Centre for Fisheries   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Cytotoxicity; Erythrocytes; Genotoxicity; Micronuclei; North Sea; Nuclear abnormalities

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; ERYTHROCYTES; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEI; NORTH SEA; NUCLEAR ABNORMALITIES;

ABERRATIONS; BLOOD; SHIPS;

CYTOTOXICITY;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABNORMALITY; CELL ORGANELLE; FLATFISH; GENOTOXICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BLOOD CELL; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FISH; FLOUNDER; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; SALINITY; SHIPPING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYTOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FLOUNDER; GADUS MORHUA; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MUTAGENS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

GADUS MORHUA; LIMANDA LIMANDA; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 69549133502     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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