1st Edition

Pollutant Studies In Marine Animals

By C. S. Giam Copyright 1987
199 Pages
by CRC Press

199 Pages
by CRC Press

This volume attempts to summarize the joint efforts of a group of workers who developed systems for analysing marine pollution for use with marine animals and then use these systems to monitor certain select marine populations. Approach taken is to seek pollutant-induced changes in metabolite (e.g. glutathione, ascorbate) concentrations, in hormone concentrations, in enzymes associated with... Read more
1. Pollutant Responses in Marine Animals: The Program 2. Bioaccumulation and Depuration of Selected Organic Compounds in Marine Fish 3. Cytochrome P-450 and Mixed-Function Oxygenase Systems in Marine Invertebrates 4. Histopathology and Histochemistry 5. Biochemical Stress Responses and Alterations of Tissue Ascorbic Acid and Glutathione Content

Biography

C. S. Giam