Statistical modeling of the hormetic dose zone and the toxic potency completes the quantitative description of hormetic dose responses

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1169-1177

  Belz, Regina G ^a   Piepho, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biphasic; Dose response model; Growth stimulation; Hormesis; Inverted U shaped curve

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIPHASIC; DOSE-RESPONSE MODELING; GROWTH STIMULATION; HORMESIS; U-SHAPED;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; INHIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HORMESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; ALGORITHM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

2-(4-CHLOROPHENOXY)BUTYRIC ACID; CLOFIBRIC ACID; POLLUTANT;

ALGORITHMS; CLOFIBRIC ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HORMESIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84928215840     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2857     Document Type: Article

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