objective(s):copper oxidenanoparticles have different industrial applications so it is inevitable that nanoparticulate products finally find their way into aquatic ecosystems. nevertheless there is little information available about their effects on some of edible fish. the present study aims to determine the acute toxicity and evaluate the effect of two sub-acute concentrations (50 and 70% 96 ...

Toxicity evaluation is an important parameter in wastewater quality monitoring as it provides the complete response of test organisms to all compounds in wastewater. The water flea Daphnia magna straus is the most commonly used zooplankton in toxicological tests. The objective of this study was to evaluate the acute toxicity of effluents from different units of Isfahan Wastewater Treatment Plan...

The starting point of toxicity testing of any chemical in an organism is the determination of its Lethal Concentration 50 (LC50). In the present study, LC50 of a fluorinated insecticide cryolite is determined in a non-target insect model, Drosophila melanogaster. Interestingly, the result shows that acute LC50 of cryolite was much greater in comparison to the chronic one in case of Drosophila l...

In globe, Pyllanthus niruri is a well-established medicinal herb studied by many researchers, grown widely in many parts of West Bengal. The present study was aimed to predict the acute toxicity as LC50 in Daphnia magna and Pimephales promelas and rat oral LD50 value as well as Ames mutagenicity by using QSAR modeling software, T.E.S.T. (Toxicity Estimation Software Tool) for commonly found phy...

The toxicity of eight botanically based biopesticides was evaluated against third instars of the scarab larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Popillia japonica Newman, Rhizotrogus majalis (Razoumowsky), Anomala orientalis Waterhouse, and Cyclocephala borealis Arrow. Soil dip bioassays were used to obtain concentration-mortality data 7 d after treatment of larvae, leading to the calculation of LC50 ...

The present investigation was undertaken to investigate the acute toxicity of cadmium, a heavy metal widely detected in aquatic environment due natural effects and anthropogenic activities, freshwater teleost, Channa punctata (Bloch). experiments for bioassay were performed semi-static test condition according standard guidelines. behavioural changes fish observed all tested concentrations meta...

A model based on the concept of reduction in life expectancy (RLE model) as a result of long term exposure to toxicant has been developed which has normal life expectancy (NLT) as a fixed limiting point for a species. The model is based on the equation (LC50 = a ln(LT50) + b) where a and b are constants. It was evaluated by plotting ln LT50 against LC50 with data on organic toxicants obtained f...

Acute toxicity is manifested in terms of effects which occur after a single administration or relatively brief exposure to substance mixture. The evidence for acute usually obtained from animal testing so characterised lethality and times used experimental protocols. Mainly two hazardous classes are reported that known as “Acute toxicity” “STOT-SE (Specific Target Organ Toxicity-Single Exposure...

The acute and chronic toxicity of zinc to wild mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi) was measured with 13-d and 30-d flow-through toxicity tests, respectively. Exposure water hardness was 48.6 mg/L as CaCO3 and 46.3 mg/L as CaCO3 in the acute and chronic tests, respectively; pH was slightly above neutral; and temperature near 12 degrees C. The median lethal concentration (LC50) after 96 h was 156 mic...

background: edifenphos, a kind of organophosphate toxins, is used as agricultural fungicides in rice fields. this study was aimed to investigate the effect of temperature on lethal concentration of exposure to edifenphos on rutilus frisii kutum (caspian kutum). methods: the experiment was carried out in static condition and based on instructions of oecd within 10 d under controlled water physic...