Quantitative read-across for predicting the acute fish toxicity of organic compounds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4616-4622

  Schüürmann, Gerrit ^a,b   Ebert, Ralf Uwe ^a   Kühne, Ralph ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION RANGE; CHEMICAL SIMILARITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FATHEAD MINNOW; GENERAL TRENDS; LETHAL CONCENTRATION; OCTANOL/WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION QUALITY; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SQUARED CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; STANDARD SETTING;

ALCOHOLS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; FORECASTING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

TOXICITY;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; FISH; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FORECASTING; LETHAL DOSE 50; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 79956010741     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200361r     Document Type: Article

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