Freshwater microcrustacean Daphnia magna Straus as an early screen model to compare toxicity of acetylcholinesteraseinhibitors

Journal of Applied Biomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-110

  Veselá, Šárka ^a,b,d   Ondruška, Vlastimil ^a   Kuča, Kamil ^b   Patočka, Jiří ^b,c  

^a Research and Development Centre Hostivice   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antidotes; Cholinesterase; Crustacean; Inhibition; Tacrine; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

7 METHOXYTACRINE; BERBERINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FRESH WATER; IODINE DERIVATIVE; TACRINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DOSE RESPONSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; STANDARDIZATION; SYNTHESIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIIDAE;

EID: 33744826241     PISSN: 1214021X     EISSN: 12140287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32725/jab.2006.010     Document Type: Article

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