Effects of cyanobacterial biomass and purified microcystins on malformations in xenopus laevis: Teratogenesis assay (FETAX)

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 547-555

  Dvořáková, Dagmar ^a   Dvořáková, Kateřina ^b   Bláha, Luděk ^c   Maršálek, Blahoslav ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blue green algae; Malformation; Microcystin; Teratogenesis; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; BACTERIA; BLOOMS (METAL);

MICROCYSTIN;

BIOMASS;

CYANOGINOSIN LR;

ABNORMALITY; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FROG; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LETHALITY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EUTROPHICATION; LETHAL DOSE 50; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; TERATOGENS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROCYSTIS WESENBERGII; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0347928838     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.10088     Document Type: Article

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