Modeling the Toxicity of Aromatic Compounds to Tetrahymena Pyriformis: The Response Surface Methodology with Nonlinear Methods

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1679-1687

  Ren, Shijin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TOXICITY;

NONLINEAR METHODS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0141994395     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci034046y     Document Type: Article

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