The Toxicity Assay of Artemia salina as a Biological Model for the Preliminary Toxic Evaluation of Chemical Pollutants

Abstract:

In order to achieve a good correlation between toxicology and Artemia salina lethality test, several chemical pollutants were examined in A. salina test, with the purpose to use the latter as convenient preliminary protocol for toxic activity. During the test, it was observed the effect of a particular lethal dose or only a knockdown in the arthropod of HgCl₂, KCN, K₂Cr₂O₇, C₆H₆ and C₆H₆Cl₆. The 24h LC₅₀ of these five chemical pollutants to the artemia nauplius was 0.12±0.09, 0.06±0.12, 0.72±0.21, 1.57±0.58 and 0.44±0.10 mg/L, respectively. The results of the A. salina lethality test for the chemical substances are essentially in agreement with those described in literature for toxic activity.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)
• Pages: 230-233
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.726-731.230
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Yin Lu, Xiao Lu Xu, Chao Meng, Jia Qin Zhou, Jun Jie Sheng, Chen Kang Wu, Shu Wen Xu
• Keywords: Artemia salina, Chemical Pollutant, Toxic Activity

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