Acute toxicity assessment of aqueous samples using a microplate-based hydra attenuata assay

Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 265-271

  Trottier, S ^a,c   Biaise, C ^b   Kusui, T ^b   Johnson, E M ^a,b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; End points; Hydra attenuata; Microplate; Sub lethal; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COELENTERATE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; COELENTERATA; HYDRA VULGARIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030835950     PISSN: 10534725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2256(1997)12:3<265::AID-TOX10>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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