A comparative study of the toxicity of mercury dichloride and methylmercury, assayed by the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus (FETAX)

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-32

  Prati, Mariangela ^a   Gornati, Rosalba ^a   Boracchi, Patrizia ^a   Biganzoli, Elia ^a   Fortaner, Salvador ^a   Pietra, Romano ^a   Sabbioni, Enrico ^a   Bernardini, Giovanni ^a  

^a Dipto Biol Strutturale Funzionale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arsenic; FETAX; Hormesis; Mercury; Neutron activation analysis; Selenium; Zinc

Indexed keywords

MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE TOXICOLOGY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FROG; FROG EMBRYO TERATOGENESIS ASSAY XENOPUS; LC 50; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036181997     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290203000104     Document Type: Article

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