Cyanotoxins : occurrence, causes, consequences /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2001. |
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| Description: | xviii, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4546676 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Cyanotoxins - Research for Environmental Safety and Human Health
- 2. Cyanotoxin Occurrence in Freshwaters
- 2.1. Cyanotoxin Occurrence in Germany
- 2.1.1. The Waterbodies Surveyed for Cyanotoxins in Germany / Claudia Wiedner, Ingrid Chorus and Jutta Fastner / [et al.]
- 2.1.2. Microcystins and Hepatocyte Toxicity / Jutta Fastner, Birgit Wirsing and Claudia Wiedner / [et al.]
- 2.1.3. Cyanopacterial Neurotoxins / Ingrid Chorus, Christiane Bumke-Vogt and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt / [et al.]
- 2.2. Comparison of Cyanotoxin Occurrence in Different Countries
- 2.2.1. Toxic Cyanobacterial Blooms of Inland Waters in Southern Norway 1978-1998 / Hans Utkilen, Olav M. Skulberg and Randi Skulberg / [et al.]
- 2.2.2. Toxic Freshwater Cyanobacteria in Denmark / Peter Henriksen
- 2.2.3. Microcystin-LR and Total Microcystins in Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Czech Republic 1993-1998 / Blahoslav Marsalek, Ludek Blaha and Jaroslav Turanek / [et al.]
- 2.2.4. Freshwater Cyanobacteria and Their Toxins in Portugal / Vitor Vasconcelos
- 2.2.5. Cyanotoxins and Cyanobacterial Blooms in South Korean Lakes / Ho-Dong Park
- 2.2.6. Cyanotoxin Occurrence in Freshwaters - a Summary of Survey Results from Different Countries / Ingrid Chorus
- 2.3. Release and Persistence of Microcystins in Natural Waters / Martin Welker, Christian Steinberg and Gary Jones
- 3. Factors Controlling Cellular Microcystin Content
- 3.1. Effects of Light and Nutrient Supply on Growth and Microcystin Content of Different Strains of Microcystis aeruginosa / Karina Hesse and Johannes-Gunter Kohl
- 3.2. Light-Limited Growth and Microcystin Content of Planktothrix agardhii and Microcystis aeruginosa in Turbidostats / Gabriele Bottcher, Ingrid Chorus and Silvia Ewald / [et al.]
- 3.3. Importance of Energy Charge for Microcystin Production / Heike Bickel and Susanne Lyck
- 3.4. Characterization of Microcystin Synthetase Genes in Microcystis aeruginosa / Elke Dittmann, Marcel Erhard and Daniel Tillett / [et al.]
- 4. Factors Affecting Cyanotoxin Concentrations in Natural Populations
- 4.1. Microcystin Variants in Microcystis and Planktothrix Dominated Field Samples / Jutta Fastner, Marcel Erhard and Uwe Neumann
- 4.2. Isolation and Characterization of Colony-Forming Microcystis aeruginosa Strains / Thomas Rohrlack, Manfred Henning and Johannes-Gunter Kohl
- 4.3. Environmental Factors on Microcystin Levels in Waterbodies / Ingrid Chorus, Verena Niesel and Jutta Fastner / [et al.]
- 5. Cyanobacterial Toxicity and Human Exposure
- 5.1. Cyanotoxins and Human Health - Overview / D. James Fitzgerald
- 5.2. Recreational Exposure to Cyanotoxins / Ingrid Chorus and Jutta Fastner
- 5.3. Cyanotoxins in Drinking-Water Supplies
- 5.3.1. An Extensive Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Associated with the Toxic Cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii (Oscillatoriales, Cyanophyceae) in Scania, South Sweden / Helene Annadotter, Gertrud Cronberg and Linda Lawton / [et al.]
- 5.3.2. Cyanobacterial Toxins in Drinking Water: a Canadian Perspective / Shalini Gupta, Michele Giddings and Marla Sheffer
- 5.3.3. Dissolved Microcystins in Raw and Treated Drinking Water in the Czech Republic / Ludek Blaha and Blahoslav Marsalek
- 5.3.4. Microcystin Analysis in Selected Drinking-Water Supplies in Germany
- 6. Effects of Microcystis spp. and Selected Cyanotoxins on Freshwater Organisms
- 6.1. Effects of Cyanotoxins on Early Life Stages of Fish and Amphibians / Axel Oberemm
- 6.2. Uptake, Enzyme Effects and Metabolism of Microcystin-LR in Aquatic Organisms
- 6.2.1. Uptake of Microcystin-LR in Aquatic Organism / Claudia Wiegand and Stephan Pflugmacher
- 6.2.2. Effects of Microcystin-LR on Detoxication Enzymes / Claudia Wiegand and Stephan Pflugmacher
- 6.2.3. Metabolism of Microcystin-LR in Aquatic Organisms / Stephan Pflugmacher and Claudia Wiegand
- 6.3. Changes of Fish Behaviour Affected by Microcystin-LR / Daniela Baganz, Georg Staaks and Christian Steinberg
- 6.4. Responses of Daphnia galeata fed with Microcystis strains with and without Microcystins / Manfred Henning, Thomas Rohrlack and Johannes-Gunter Kohl
- 7. Toxic Effects and Substances in Cyanobacteria other than Microcystins, Anatoxin-a and Saxitoxins
- 7.1. Peptides and Depsipeptides Product by Cyanobacteria / Heike Bickel, Uwe Neumann and Jurgen Weckesser
- 7.2. Significance of Unidentified Toxic Compounds and Approaches to their Identification / Axel Oberemm, Rita Heinze and Olaf Papendorf / [et al.]
- 7.3. New Cyanobacterial Substances with Bioactive Properties / Ayako Forchert, Uwe Neumann and Olaf Papendorf
- 8. Contributions to Toxicity Testing and Toxin Analysis
- 8.1. Testing Cyanobacterial Toxicity with Primary Rat Hepatocyte and Cell-Line Assays / Rita Heinze, Jutta Fastner and Uwe Neumann / [et al.]
- 8.2. Can the Primary Rat Hepatocyte Assay Replace the Mouse Assay for Microcystin Testing? Validation with "Historic" Sample from the First Survey on Cyanobacterial Toxicity in German / Peter Woltke, Rita Heinze and Marion Dewender / [et al.]
- 8.3. Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Assessing Microcystin Concentrations with a Variety of Field Samples / Thomas Flury, Rita Heinze and Birgit Wirsing / [et al.]
- 8.4. A Fish-Embryo Bioassay for the Assessment of Cyanobacterial Toxicity / Axel Oberemm
- 8.5. Rapid Typing and Structure Determination of Cyanobacterial Peptides Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry / Marcel Erhard, Hans von Dohren and Peter Jungblut
- 9. Routine Analytical Methods Applied in the German Cyanotox Project
- 9.1. Microcystin Analysis
- 9.2. Cell Counting, Determination of Biovolume and Chlorophyll-a.
