Inhibition of the thioredoxin system in the brain and liver of zebra-seabreams exposed to waterborne methylmercury

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-103

  Branco, Vasco ^a,b   Canário, João ^b   Holmgren, Arne ^c   Carvalho, Cristina ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Thioredoxin; Thioredoxin reductase

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; METHYLMERCURY; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; TOXICOKINETICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; LIVER; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEA BREAM; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; PISCES;

EID: 79851508904     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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