Toxicity Testing
Biological testing (usually with an invertebrate, fish, or small mammal) to determine the adverse effects of a compound or effluent.
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Toxicity testing: Performing controlled testing in the laboratory (in in vitro assays and in animal models) to determine the toxicity of a compound or drug to an organism at various concentrations. Is performed before testing in humans begins.
Worksheets for Toxicity Testing In Brine Shrimp are available for download in PDF format:
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High dose used in chronic toxicity testing that is expected on the basis of an adequate subchronic study to produce limited toxicity when administered for the duration of the test period.
Note 1: It should not induce: ...
In vitro
In an artificial environment outside a living organism or body. For example, some toxicity testing is done on cell cultures or slices of tissue grown in the laboratory, rather than on a living animal [compare with in vivo].
The water found in the interstices of submerged sediments, the basis of some types of toxicity testing, since it is pore water to which benthic organisms are exposed.
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 See also: Toxicity, Toxic, Environment, Concentration, Organism
  
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