Tissue injury and cellular immune responses to mercuric chloride exposure in the common mussel Mytilus edulis: Modulation by lipopolysaccharide

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1338-1344

  Sheir, Sherin K ^a   Handy, Richard D ^a   Galloway, Tamara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunotoxicity; Inflammation; Lipopolysaccharide; Mercury; Mytilus edulis; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCOSE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMOLYMPH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GILLS; HEMOCYTES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MUSCLES; MYTILUS EDULIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BIVALVIA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 77956230174     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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