Mixture toxicity and gene inductions: Can we predict the outcome?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 509-518

  Dardenne, Freddy ^a   Nobels, Ingrid ^a   De Coen, Wim ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concentration addition; Escherichia coli; Mixture; Response addition; Stress gene

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MIXTURES;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENE INDUCTIONS;

TOXICITY;

COPPER CHLORIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PARAQUAT;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INHIBITION; MODEL; SYNERGISM; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG MIXTURE; ECOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TOXICITY TESTING;

COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 40949095654     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-303.1     Document Type: Article

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