1. Evaluation of malondialdehyde as an index of lead damage in rat brain homogenates

   • Shafiq-ur-Rehman
   • Shaheen Rehman
   • Mohammad Abdulla

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 279

2. Bioavailability and toxicity of sediment-bound lead to a filter-feeder bivalve Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg)

   • J. C. Amiard
   • H. Ettajani
   • C. Amiard-Triquet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 280 - 289

3. Modified nucleoside-dependent transition metal binding to DNA analogs of the tRNA anticodon stem/loop domain

   • Anh T. Lam
   • Richard Guenther
   • Paul F. Agris

   OriginalPaper Pages: 290 - 296

4. Induction of ferric reductase activity in response to iron deficiency in Arabidopsis

   • Jennifer A. Saleeba
   • Mary Lou Guerinot

   OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 300

5. Whole-body retention, and urinary and fecal excretion of mercury after subchronic oral exposure to mercuric chloride in rats

   • Miguel Angel Morcillo
   • Jesus Santamaria

   OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 308

6. Ornibactin production and transport properties in strains of Burkholderia vietnamiensis and Burkholderia cepacia (formerly Pseudomonas cepacia)

   • Jean-Marie Meyer
   • Van Trân
   • Günther Winkelmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 317

7. Proferrioxamine synthesis in Erwinia amylovora in response to precursor or hydroxylysine feeding: metabolic profiling with liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry

   • Gottfried J. Feistner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 318 - 327

8. A kinetic study of the coupled iron-ceruloplasmin catalyzed oxidation of ascorbate in the presence of albumin

   • Rolf Arthur Løvstad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 328 - 331

9. Production of the triacetecholate siderophore protochelin by Azotobacter vinelandii

   • Anthony S. Cornish
   • William J. Page

   OriginalPaper Pages: 332 - 338

10. Expression of metallothionein genes during the post-embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster

    • Michèle Durliat
    • François Bonneton
    • Maurice Wegnez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 351

11. An in vitro study on the binding of Al(III) to human serum transferrin with the isoelectric focusing technique

    • G. de Jong
    • C. C. A. Ammerlaan
    • M. E. de Broe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 352 - 356

12. Isolation and characterization of the siderophore N-deoxyschizokinen from Bacillus megaterium ATCC 19213

    • Xicheng Hu
    • Gregory L. Boyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 364

13. Meeting announcements

    Announcement Pages: 368 - 368