[en] 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.
Research center :
MARE - Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - ULiège
Bouquegneau, Jean-Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Océanologie
Debacker, Virginie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Ecologie animale et écotoxicologie - Ecophysiologie et physiologie animale
Gobert, Sylvie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Océanologie
Havelange, Stéphane
Language :
English
Title :
Role of the metallothioneins in metal regulation by the guillemot Uria aalge
Publication date :
1996
Journal title :
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. C, Comparative Pharmacology and Toxicology
ISSN :
0742-8413
Publisher :
Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
113C
Issue :
2
Pages :
135-139
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Communauté française de Belgique - CfB ARC 89/131 SPPS
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