Developmental effects of the ToxCast™ phase I and phase II chemicals in caenorhabditis elegans and corresponding responses in Zebrafish, Rats, and Rabbits

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 586-593

  Boyd, Windy A ^a   Smith, Marjolein V ^b   Co, Caroll A ^b   Pirone, Jason R ^b   Rice, Julie R ^a   Shockley, Keith R ^c   Freedman, Jonathan H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ANILIDE; CARBAMIC ACID; CONAZOLE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHENOXY; PYRETHROID; PYRIDINE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EFFECT SIZE THRESHOLD; HALF MAXIMAL ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LARVA; LOWEST EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXCAST; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LEPORIDAE; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; RAT; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; RABBITS; RATS; TOXICITY TESTS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84964800584     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409645     Document Type: Article

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