Application of a battery of biomarkers in mussel digestive gland to assess long-term effects of the Prestige oil spill in Galicia and Bay of Biscay: Tissue-level biomarkers and histopathology

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 915-932

  Garmendia, Larraitz ^a   Soto, Manu ^a   Vicario, Unai ^a   Kim, Yungkul ^b,c   Cajaraville, Miren P ^a   Marigómez, Ionan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jackson State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BASOPHIL; CELL AGGREGATION; CILIATE; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM; EXOCRINE GLAND; GRANULOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MARTEILIA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMATODE;

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIVALVIA; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PETROLEUM; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CILIOPHORA; MARTEILIA; MYTILICOLA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NEMATOPSIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79953858591     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0em00410c     Document Type: Article

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