Assessing chronic toxicity of bisphenol a to larvae of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) in a flow-through exposure system

Chemosphere

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-235

  Pickford, Daniel B ^a   Hetheridge, Malcolm J ^a   Caunter, John E ^a   Hall, A Tilghman ^b   Hutchinson, Thomas H ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bisphenol A; Development; Sex differentiation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TOXICITY;

DILUTION WATER CONTROL (DWC); METAMORPHOSIS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

AMPHIBIAN; PHENOL; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DILUTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY TESTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; GONADS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOLS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0142181299     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00308-4     Document Type: Article

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