Acute and sub-lethal exposure to copper oxide nanoparticles causes oxidative stress and teratogenicity in zebrafish embryos

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 554-567

  Ganesan, Santhanamari ^a   Anaimalai Thirumurthi, Naveenkumar ^a   Raghunath, Azhwar ^a   Vijayakumar, Savitha ^a   Perumal, Ekambaram ^a  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CuO NPs; Oxidative stress; Sub lethal exposure; Teratogenicity; Zebrafish embryos

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); COPPER OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; ANTIOXIDANT; COPPER; CUPROUS OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HATCHING; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LC50; MORTALITY RATE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; METABOLISM; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; COPPER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HEART RATE; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; TERATOGENESIS; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84958756375     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.3224     Document Type: Article

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