Selenium reduces the retention of methyl mercury in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6324-6329

  Bjerregaard, Poul ^a   Christensen, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FOOD; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOKINETICS; BIOMAGNIFICATION; DOSE-DEPENDENT; ELIMINATION PROCESS; FOOD CHAIN; MARINE SHRIMP; METHYL MERCURY; SELENIUM CONCENTRATIONS; TOP PREDATOR; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AMINO ACIDS; ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; MERCURY (METAL); SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SHELLFISH;

SELENIUM;

METHYLMERCURY; SELENATE; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTINE; SELENOMETHIONINE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CRUSTACEAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; HEALTH RISK; METHYLMERCURY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REDUCTION; SELENIUM; TOXICOLOGY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANGON CRANGON; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CRANGONIDAE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HALF-LIFE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SELENIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861879630     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300549y     Document Type: Article

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