Effects of exposure to soluble fraction of industrial solid waste on lipid peroxidation and DNA methylation in erythrocytes of Oreochromis niloticus, as assessed by quantification of MDA and m5dC rates

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-70

  Flohr, Letícia ^a   Fuzinatto, Cristiane Funghetto ^a   Melegari, Sílvia Pedroso ^a   Matias, William Gerson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Industrial solid waste; Lipid peroxidation; Oreochromis niloticus

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLDEOXYCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; MALONALDEHYDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMARKER; DNA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PERCIFORM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOLID WASTE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SOLID WASTE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CICHLIDS; DNA METHYLATION; ERYTHROCYTES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS;

EID: 81955167419     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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