Toxicity ranking of heavy metals with screening method using adult Caenorhabditis elegans and propidium iodide replicates toxicity ranking in rat

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3280-3290

  Hunt, Piper Reid ^a   Olejnik, Nicholas ^a,b   Sprando, Robert L ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative animal model; Caenorhabditis elegans; Heavy metals; Liquid culture; Propidium iodide; Toxicity ranking

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; COPPER CHLORIDE; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT ANIMAL; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; EXPOSURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GONAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINAL INTEGRITY; INTESTINAL THICKNESS; LD 50; LIQUID CULTURE; MICROFLUIDICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; TOXICITY TESTING; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84864145718     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.06.051     Document Type: Article

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