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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume42

116 pages

Issue price - $398.00

The Antioxidant Protection System of Hepatopancreas of Astacus leptodactylus as a Biomarker of Water Pollution with Heavy Metal Ions

O. B. Stolyar
Ternopil State Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine

A. Ye. Mudraya
Ternopil State Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine

G. I. Falfushinskaya
Ternopil State Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Zn²⁺, Mn²⁺, Cu²⁺, Pb²⁺(0.1, 0.12, 0.01 and 0,01 mg/L concentrations, respectively) and their mixture acted on the crayfish Astacus leptodactylus for 14 days effected in increased prooxidant processes in the hepatopancreas. An integrative index of the antioxidant-prooxidant state appeared to be a sensitive nonspecific test for the pollution of water with heavy metals.