Assessing bioaccumulation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers for aquatic species by QSAR modeling

Chemosphere

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 433-444

  Mansouri, Kamel ^a   Consonni, Viviana ^a   Durjava, Mojca Kos ^b   Kolar, Boris ^b   Öberg, Tomas ^c   Todeschini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Center for Risk Assessment of Chemicals with Laboratory   (Slovenia)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BAF; BCF; Bioaccumulation; BMF; PBDEs; QSAR

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HORMONES; MOLECULAR GRAPHICS;

BIOCONCENTRATION FACTOR; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY; PBDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); QSAR; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; EUROPEAN UNION; FOAM; HORMONE; NEUROLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; PERSISTENCE; PLASTIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TOXIC MATERIAL; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMAGNETISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864102854     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.05.081     Document Type: Article

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