An evaluation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in the Amphibian Metamorphosis Assay and the Fish Short-Term Reproduction Assay

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-150

  Coady, Katherine ^a   Marino, Troy ^a   Thomas, Johnson ^a   Sosinski, Lindsay ^a   Neal, Barbara ^b   Hammond, Larry ^c  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^c Toxicology Subcommittee   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4 D; Endocrine; Pimephales promelas; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FECUNDITY; FROG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIBIAN METAMORPHOSIS ASSAY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FERTILITY; FISH; FISH SHORT TERM REPRODUCTION ASSAY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TADPOLE; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYPRINIDAE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84874254064     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.12.025     Document Type: Article

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