Role of the metallothioneins in metal regulation by the guillemot Uria aalge

peer reviewed Guillemots, like other seabird species living in the North Sea, appear to be heavily contaminated by copper. Metallothioneins are present in both liver and kidney but, at least in the specimens stranded along the Belgian coast, fail to maintain constant the copper, zinc and cadmium loa...

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Published in:Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Endocrinology
Main Authors: Bouquegneau, Jean-Marie, Debacker, Virginie, Gobert, Sylvie, Havelange, Stéphane
Other Authors: MARE - Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - ULiège
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 1996
Subjects:
metallothionein
heavy metals
seabird
Life sciences
Environmental sciences & ecology
Zoology
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Sciences du vivant
Sciences de l’environnement & écologie
Zoologie
Sciences aquatiques & océanologie
Uria aalge
uria
Online Access:https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/947
https://doi.org/10.1016/0742-8413(95)02079-9
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Summary:peer reviewed Guillemots, like other seabird species living in the North Sea, appear to be heavily contaminated by copper. Metallothioneins are present in both liver and kidney but, at least in the specimens stranded along the Belgian coast, fail to maintain constant the copper, zinc and cadmium load of the high molecular weight soluble proteins of both organs, stressing the potential toxic role of these metals, mainly copper.

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