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Author:   G A Codd (University of Dundee) ,  T M Jefferies (University of Bath) ,  C W Keevil (Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research) ,  E Potter (National Rivers Authority, UK)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781855738027

ISBN 10:   1855738023
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Health problems from exposure to cyanobacteria and proposed safety guidelines for drinking and recreational water; An epidemiological critique of reports of human illness associated with cyanohacteria; Cyclic peptide hepatotoxins from fresh water cyanobacteria water blooms collected in the river dnieper reservoirs and other water bodies from the European part of Russia; Structural analysis of cyanobacterial toxins; Determinations of anatoxin-a, homoanatoxin and propylanatoxin in cyanobacterial extracts by HPLC, GC-mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis; Enantiomer-specific analysis of homoanatoxin-a. a cyanophyte neurotoxin; Neurotoxins from Australian Anabaena; The analysis of microcystin-LR in water: Application in water treatment studies; The analysis of microcystins in raw and treated water; Application of HPLC and mass spectrometry (MALDI) to the detection and identification of toxins from microcystis, oscillatoria and aphanizomenon from several freshwater reservoirs; Routes of intoxication; Testing of toxicity in cyanobacteria by cellular assays; A sensitive bioscreen for detection of cyclic peptide toxins of the microcystin class; The inhibition of protein phosphatases by toxins: Implications for health and an extremely sensitive and rapid bioassay for toxin detection; Detection of hepatotoxins by protein phosphatase inhibition assay: advantages, pitfalls and anomalies; Alternatives to the mouse bioassay for cyanobacterial toxicity assessment; Evaluation of assay methods for the determination of cyanobacterial hepatotoxicity; The role of synthetic chemistry in the production of standards for toxin analysis; Sources of uncertainty in assessing the health risk of cyanobacterial blooms in drinking water supplies; Standing committee of analysts; Toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in Portuguese freshwaters; Screening of cyanobactenal toxins in microcystis aeruginosa collected from blooms and cultures; Toxicity studies with blue-green algae from Flemish reservoirs; Cases of cyanobacterial toxicoses on Swiss alpine pastures; Biological and economic significance of benthic cyanobacteria in two Scottish highland lochs; First results on the occurrence of microcystin-LR in Berlin and Brandenburg lakes; Variation of cyanobacterial hepatotoxins in Finland; A method for the detection of cyanobacterial peptide toxins by HPLC; Release and degradation of microcystin during a microcystis aeru bloom in a freshwater reservoir; Characterization of hepatotoxins from freshwater oscillatoria species: Variation in toxicity and temporal expression; Expression of cyanotoxins in environmental biomass containing species of oscillatoria; A simple and rapid method for extraction of toxic peptides from cyanobacteria; Phosphatase assay as a determinant of hepatotoxin toxicity; Detection of cyanobacterial (blue-green algal) peptide toxins by protein phosphatase inhibition; Investigation of the solution conformation of microcystins-LR and -RR by high field nuclear magnetic resonance; The tandem mass spectrometry of nodularin, microcystins and other cyclic peptides.

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