A rapid bioassay for detecting saxitoxins using a Daphnia acute toxicity test

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2084-2093

  Ferrão Filho, Aloysio da S ^a   Soares, Maria Carolina S ^b   de Magalhães, Valéria Freitas ^c   Azevedo, Sandra M F O ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY TEST; CELL DENSITY; CYANOTOXINS; DAPHNIA; EFFECTIVE TIME; EUTROPHIC RESERVOIRS; IN-CONTROL; LAKE WATER SAMPLES; LAKE WATERS; MOUSE BIOASSAY; RAW WATER; SENSITIVE METHOD; SWIMMING ACTIVITY;

BIOASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOTOXIN; LAKE WATER; SAXITOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; CRUSTACEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; LAKE WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TEST; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOASSAY; BIOMASS; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIA; DAPHNIA; FRESH WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAXITOXIN; SWIMMING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; MOINA MICRURA;

EID: 77953290358     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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