Dechorionation as a tool to improve the fish embryo toxicity test (FET) with the zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-98

  Henn, Kirsten ^a   Braunbeck, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dechorionation; Fish embryo test; Luviquat; Polymer; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

3,4 DICHLOROANILINE; ACETONE; LUVIQUAT HM 552; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EXPOSURE; FERTILIZATION; HATCHING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78649703579     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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