Toxicity testing of herbicide norflurazon on an aquatic bioindicator species - The planarian Polycelis felina (Daly.)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 342-352

  Horvat, T ^a,c   Kalafatic M ^a   Kopjar, N ^b   Kovacevic G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^c NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Norflurazon; Planarian; Tissue damage; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

DNA; HERBICIDE; NORFLURAZON; WATER;

BIOINDICATOR; FLATWORM; HERBICIDE; TOXICITY TEST;

ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL DAMAGE; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DETOXIFICATION; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDERMIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TISSUE INJURY; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TURBELLARIA; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; CROATIA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LOCOMOTION; MORTALITY; PLANARIANS; PYRIDAZINES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; PLANARIA; POLYCELIS FELINA;

EID: 21744436939     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2005.03.023     Document Type: Article

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