Aquatic toxicity of four alkyphenols (3-tert-butylphenol, 2-isopropylphenol, 3-isopropylphenol, and 4-isopropylphenol) and their binary mixtures to microbes, invertebrates, and fish

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-50

  Choi, Kyungho ^a   Sweet, Leonard I ^b   Meier, Peter G ^b   Kim, Pan Gyi ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Yongin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alkylphenol; Aquatic toxicity; Ceriodaphnia dubia; Fathead minnows; Microtox ; Mixture; QSAR; Vibrio fischeri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BINARY MIXTURES; CELLS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHENOLS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CELL STRUCTURES; INVERTEBRATES;

TOXICITY;

ALKYLPHENOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOMONITORING; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHENOL; TOXICOLOGY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOASSAY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; DRUG INTERACTION; FOOD CHAIN; LD 50; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERIODAPHNIA; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CYPRINIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; LETHAL DOSE 50; PHENOLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 1242342010     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.10150     Document Type: Article

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