Predicting adult fish acute lethality with the zebrafish embryo: Relevance of test duration, endpoints, compound properties, and exposure concentration analysis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9690-9700

  Knöbel, Melanie ^a   Busser, Frans J M ^b   Rico Rico, Ángeles ^b   Kramer, Nynke I ^b   Hermens, Joop L M ^b   Hafner, Christoph ^c   Tanneberger, Katrin ^a   Schirmer, Kristin ^a,d,e   Scholz, Stefan ^f  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Hydrotox GmbH   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALLYL ALCOHOLS; COMPOUND PROPERTY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE CONCENTRATION; EXPOSURE DURATIONS; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NEUROTOXIC COMPOUNDS; PERMETHRIN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REGRESSION LINES; SODIUM CHANNEL; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBLETHAL EFFECTS; TEST DURATION; TOXIC ACTION; TOXICITY TEST; TOXICITY VALUES; TYPE II; ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS;

FISH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

TOXICITY;

ALLYL ALCOHOL; PERMETHRIN;

ADULT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; METABOLISM; NEUROLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERMETHRIN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; TOXICITY TESTING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; LETHAL DOSE 50; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84865756848     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301729q     Document Type: Article

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