Bio-Assessing of Environmental Pollution via Monitoring of Metallothionein Level Using Electrochemical Detection

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1578-1585

  Stejskal, Karel ^a   Krizkova, Sona ^a   Zehnalek, Josef ^a   Kizek, Rene ^a   Adam, Voitech ^a   Sures, Bernd ^b   Trnkova, Libuse ^c   Hubalek, Jaromir ^d   Beklova, Miroslava ^e   Hanustiak, Pavel ^e   Svobodova, Zdenka ^e   Horna, Ales ^f  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^f TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Amperometric detection; biomarker; electrochemical sensors; fish; flow injection analysis; heavy metal; metallothionein; poecilia reticulata; silver

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008013885     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.928500     Document Type: Article

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