Virtual screening for environmental pollutants: Structure-activity relationships applied to a database of industrial chemicals

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1178-1183

  Öberg, Tomas ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mixture exposure; Persistent organic pollutants; Quantitative structure activity relationships; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMPURITIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY;

MIXTURE EXPOSURE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS;

SCREENING;

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CHLOROFLUOROHYDROCARBON; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; NONYLPHENOL; PARAFFIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; HALOGEN;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DATABASE; HALOGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERSISTENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HALF LIFE TIME; HALOGENATION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DRUG SCREENING; FACTUAL DATABASE; LD 50; METHODOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HALOGENS; LETHAL DOSE 50; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33746927157     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-326R.1     Document Type: Article

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