Developmental toxicity, uptake and distribution of sodium chromate assayed by frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5039-5045

  Bosisio, Stefano ^a   Fortaner, Salvador ^b   Bellinetto, Sonia ^a   Farina, Massimo ^b   Del Torchio, Riccardo ^b   Prati, Mariangela ^c   Gornati, Rosalba ^c   Bernardini, Giovanni ^c   Sabbioni, Enrico ^d  

^a Institute for Health and Consumer Protection ^*  (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromium(VI); Embryotoxicity; Environmental chromium toxicity; FETAX; Radioanalytical methods; Teratogenicity; Uptake; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHROMIUM TOXICITY; FETAX; RADIOANALYTICAL METHODS; TERATOGENICITY; UPTAKE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CHROMATES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GELATION; MUTAGENESIS; TOXICITY;

CHROMIUM;

CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHROMATE; SURFACE WATER;

ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHROMIUM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FROG; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; SODIUM; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; GROWTH RETARDATION; LARVAL STAGE; LC 50; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY; TOXICOKINETICS; WATER CONTENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DNA ADDUCTS; FEMALE; LARVA; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TERATOGENS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 67650991852     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.047     Document Type: Article

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