Implications of the solvent vehicles dimethylformamide and dimethylsulfoxide for establishing transcriptomic endpoints in the zebrafish embryo toxicity test

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 593-604

  Turner, Catherine ^a   Sawle, Ashley ^a   Fenske, Martina ^b,c   Cossins, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dimethylformamide; Dimethylsulfoxide; Gene expression; Regulatory testing; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CHEMICAL TESTING; CONCENTRATION LIMITS; DANIO RERIO; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ECOTOXICITY TEST; EMBRYONIC RNA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIMIT LEVELS; MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SOLVENT CONCENTRATION; SOLVENT EFFECTS; TEST STRATEGIES; TOXICITY TEST; TRANSCRIPTOMES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA; SOLVENTS;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; RNA; SOLVENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GUIDELINE; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOLVENT; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOLVENTS; TOXICITY TESTS; TRANSCRIPTOME; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84857501907     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1718     Document Type: Article

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