Towards an alternative for the acute fish LC50 test in chemical assessment: The fish embryo toxicity test goes multi-species - An update

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Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-102

  Braunbeck, Thomas ^a   Böttcher, Melanie ^a   Hollert, Henner ^a   Kosmehl, Thomas ^a   Lammer, Eva ^a   Leist, Erik ^a   Rudolf, Mark ^a   Seitz, Nadja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dechorionation; Fathead minnow; Fish embryo test; Genotoxicity; Medaka; Mutagenicity; Oxygen requirements; Sediment toxicity; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; 3,4 DICHLOROANILINE; COPPER SULFATE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BREEDING METHOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHORION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EXPOSURE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FISH; GENOTOXICITY; GERMANY; ILLUMINATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LC 50; LIPOPHILICITY; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEDIMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WEIGHT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISHES; GERMANY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 22144477546     PISSN: 09467785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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