mRNA expression of a cadmium-responsive gene is a sensitive biomarker of cadmium exposure in the soil collembolan Folsomia candida

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1689-1695

  Nakamori, Taizo ^a   Fujimori, Akira ^a   Kinoshita, Keiji ^b   Ban nai, Tadaaki ^a   Kubota, Yoshihisa ^a   Yoshida, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; Collembola; Gene expression; Metallothionein; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROCESS; CADMIUM CONTAMINATION; CADMIUM EXPOSURE; CDNA; COLLEMBOLA; DRY FOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LOW LEVEL; METALLOTHIONEINS; MRNA EXPRESSION; REPEATED SEQUENCES; STRESS RESPONSE; TOXIC EFFECT;

AMINO ACIDS; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEINS; SOILS; TOXICITY;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CADMIUM; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AMINO ACID; ARTHROPOD; BIOMARKER; CADMIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; METALLOTHIONEIN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RNA; SOIL BIOTA;

ARTICLE; COLLEMBOLAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL INVERTEBRATE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

COLLEMBOLA; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA;

EID: 77949917779     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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