An approach to calculate the toxicity of simple organic molecules on the basis of QSAR analysis in Hydractinia echinata (Hydrozoa, cnidaria)

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-236

  Chicu, Sergiu Adrian ^a   Herrmann, Klaus ^a   Berking, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calculating toxicity; Hydractinia; Marine invertebrates; Mechanisms of action; Metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

AMINES; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR GRAPHICS;

CALCULATING TOXICITY; CNIDARIA; HYDRACTINIUM; HYDROZOA; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; MECHANISM OF ACTION; METAMORPHOSE; ORGANIC MOLECULES; QSAR ANALYSIS; SIMPLE++;

TOXICITY;

ALIPHATIC AMINE; ALKANE; ALKANOL; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYOL;

ARTICLE; METAMORPHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXICITY;

EID: 0033948946     PISSN: 09318771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3838(200006)19:3<227::AID-QSAR227>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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