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• Low-dose effects and biphasic effect profiles: is trenbolone a genotoxicant?

  Over the last years, extensive research has documented endocrine-disrupting activities for a significant number of substances including, among others,…

  Authors: Melanie Boettcher, Thomas Kosmehl, Thomas Braunbeck

  Source: Mutation research. 2011 Aug 16

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• Environmental effect assessment for sexual endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Fish testing strategy.

  Current standard testing and assessment tools are not designed to identify specific and biologically highly sensitive modes of action of chemicals, su…

  Authors: Thomas Knacker, Melanie Boettcher, Tobias Frische, Hans Rufli, Hans-Christian Stolzenberg, Matthias Teigeler, Sabine Zok, Thomas Braunbeck, Christoph Schäfers

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2010 Oct

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• Comparison of in vitro and in situ genotoxicity in the Danube River by means of the comet assay and the micronucleus test.

  Genotoxicity can be correlated with adverse reproductive effects or may even result in elevated extinction risk for particular species of an ecosystem…

  Authors: Melanie Boettcher, Stefanie Grund, Steffen Keiter, Thomas Kosmehl, Georg Reifferscheid, Nadja Seitz, Paula Suares Rocha, Henner Hollert, Thomas Braunbeck

  Source: Mutation research. 2010 Jul 19

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• Towards an alternative for the acute fish LC(50) test in chemical assessment: the fish embryo toxicity test goes multi-species -- an update.

  After its standardisation at the national level in Germany (DIN 38415-6, 2001, 2001), the 48 h sewage testing assay with zebrafish (Danio rerio) embry…

  Authors: Thomas Braunbeck, Melanie Boettcher, Henner Hollert, Thomas Kosmehl, Eva Lammer, Erik Leist, Mark Rudolf, Nadja Seitz

  Source: ALTEX. 2005

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