Acute toxicity of nonpolar versus polar narcosis: Is there a difference?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1380-1384

  Vaes, Wouter H J ^a   Ramos, Eñaut Urrestarazu ^a   Verhaar, Henk J M ^a   Hermens, Joop L M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Fish; Lethal body burden; Narcosis; Partition coefficients

Indexed keywords

DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; LC 50; LETHAL DOSE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031800286     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<1380:ATONVP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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