Brominated flame retardants: Activities in a crustacean development test and in an ecdysteroid screening assay

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 400-407

  Wollenberger, Leah ^a   Dinan, Laurence ^b   Breitholtz, Magnus ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brominated diphenyl ethers; Ecotoxicity; Invertebrate; Tetrabromobisphenol A; Tribromophenol

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECOLOGY; ETHERS; PHENOLS; TOXICITY;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS (BFR); INVERTEBRATE BIOASSAYS; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A (TBBPA); TOXIC EFFECTS; TRIBROMOPHENOL (TBP);

FLAME RETARDANTS;

2,2',4,4',5 PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; 2,2',4,4',6 PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; 2,2'4,4' TETRABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; 2,4,4' TRIBROMODIPHENYL ETHER; 2,4,6 TRIBROMOPHENOL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ECDYSTEROID; FLAME RETARDANT; PENTABROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A; TRIBROMOPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; BROMINE COMPOUND; CRUSTACEAN; ECOTOXICOLOGY; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOTOXICITY; GROWTH RETARDATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSTERONE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; LARVA; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACARTIA; ACARTIA TONSA; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 12344249914     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-629.1     Document Type: Article

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