Ecotoxicity prediction using mechanism- and non-mechanism-based QSARs: A preliminary study

Chemosphere

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1053-1065

  Ren, Shijin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanism; Phenol; Quantitative structure activity relationship; Tetrahymena pyriformis; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; PHENOLS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA SETS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

PHENOL;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHENOL; PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICOLOGY;

TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0642336892     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00573-3     Document Type: Article

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