Use of the Up-and-Down Acute Toxicity Test Procedure to Generate LC50 Data for Fish

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 873-880

  Sunderam, R M ^a   Patra, R W ^a   Julli, M ^a   Warne, M St J ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN; PHENOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; LAPAROTOMY; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1942438088     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0325-0     Document Type: Article

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