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Main Title Structure-Toxicity Relationships for the Fathead Minnow, 'Pimephales promelas': Narcotic Industrial Chemicals.
Author Veith, G. D. ; Call, D. J. ; Brooke, L. T. ;
CORP Author Wisconsin Univ.-Superior. Center for Lake Superior Environmental Studies.;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Year Published 1983
Report Number EPA-R-809234; EPA-600/J-83-070;
Stock Number PB84-110006
Additional Subjects Toxicology ; Fishes ; Lethal dosage ; Mammals ; Reprints ; Fathead minnows ; Pimephales promelas ; Toxic substances ; Water pollution effects(Animals)
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Abstract Narcosis is a reversible state of arrested activity of protoplasmic structures caused by a wide variety of organic chemicals. This nonspecific mode of toxic activity was found predominant in acute toxicity studies of industrial chemicals and fish. This paper presents 96-h LC50 values for 65 industrial chemicals including alcohols, ketones, ethers, alkyl halides, and substituted benzenes. The common mode of action permitted the development of a structure-toxicity relationship as follows: log LC50 = -0.94 log P + 0.94 log (0.000068P + 1) - 1.25 where P is the n-octanol/water partition coefficient. The data show that the toxicity of the chemicals to fish is directly comparable with the toxicity in mammals when expressed as chemical activity.
Availability Notes Pub. in Canadian Jnl. of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, v40 p743-748 1983.
NTIS Title Notes Journal article.
Title Annotations Reprint: Structure-Toxicity Relationships for the Fathead Minnow, 'Pimephales promelas': Narcotic Industrial Chemicals.
PUB Date Free Form c1983
Category Codes 6T; 6F; 57Y; 68D
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Primary Description 600/03
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Cataloging Source NTIS/MT
Control Number 402046825
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