An innovative continuous flow system for monitoring heavy metal pollution in water using transgenic Xenopus laevis tadpoles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 8895-8900

  Fini, Jean Baptiste ^a   Pallud Mothré, Sophie ^b   Le Mével, Sébastien ^a   Palmier, Karima ^a   Havens, Christopher M ^c   Le Brun, Matthieu ^d   Mataix, Vincent ^d   Lemkine, Gregory F ^b   Demeneix, Barbara A ^a   Turque, Nathalie ^a,f   Johnson, Paul E ^c,e  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b WATCHFROG S A   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

^e SoftRay Inc   (United States)

^f LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; HEAVY METALS; IMPURITIES; LAND RECLAMATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CONTINUOUS FLOW METHODS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW SYSTEM; HEAVY METAL MONITORING; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; METAL-RESPONSIVE ELEMENTS; ON-SITE MEASUREMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS TADPOLES;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC ION;

AMPHIBIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HEAVY METAL; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; REAL TIME; SAMPLING; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; TADPOLE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 72249104284     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9008954     Document Type: Article

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