β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) metabolism in the aquatic macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 120, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-92

  Downing, Simoné ^a   Esterhuizen Londt, Maranda ^a,c   Grant Downing, Timothy ^a,b  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Institute for Ethnomedicine   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic; BMAA; Macrophyte; Metabolism; N methylamino l alanine

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; BETA-N-METHYLAMINO-L-ALANINE; DIAMINO ACID; NEUROTOXIN; POLLUTANT;

AMINO ACID; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOACCUMULATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; MACROPHYTE; METABOLISM; TOXIN;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL LEVEL; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DEPURATION; DETOXIFICATION; EXCRETION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MACROPHYTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; CYANOBACTERIUM; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT;

ANIMALIA; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYANOBACTERIA;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; NEUROTOXINS;

EID: 84930684660     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.05.022     Document Type: Article

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