Metal bioaccumulation, genotoxicity and gene expression in the European wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) inhabiting an abandoned uranium mining area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 673-680

  Lourenço, Joana ^a   Pereira, Ruth ^a,b   Gonçalves, Fernando ^a   Mendo, Sónia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; DNA damage; Gene expression; Metals; Radionuclides; SNPs

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; BIOINDICATOR SPECIES; CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; COMET ASSAYS; CURVE ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGES; DNA STRAND BREAK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC DISEASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXIC EFFECTS; GENOTOXICITIES; HUMAN POPULATION; METAL BIOACCUMULATION; P53 GENE; REAL-TIME PCR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SNPS; URANIUM MINING; WOOD MOUSE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; DAMAGE DETECTION; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; METALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RISKS; RUBIDIUM; URANIUM;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; STRONTIUM; URANIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; DISEASE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTOXICITY; MINING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMORPHISM; RADIONUCLIDE; RODENT; URANIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MALE; MOUSE; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RB GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THERMAL POLLUTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; URANIUM MINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; COMET ASSAY; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; METALS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURINAE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; URANIUM;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MUS;

EID: 84870673839     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.105     Document Type: Article

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