A simulation study of methods for constructing confidence intervals for bioaccumulation factors.

Abstract:

:Toxicokinetics describe the time course of xenobiotics in an exposed organism. The steady state concentration of the xenobiotic is a characteristic of frequent concern, often summarized in terms of bioaccumulation factors (BAFs). Two experimental protocols are commonly used when estimating BAFs: a continuous exposure experiment and a start-stop exposure experiment. Nonlinear regression is then used for estimating components of the BAF. A variety of methods are available for constructing confidence intervals (CI) for the BAF, including the delta method and Fieller's method. The properties of these CI methods are explored through a simulation study. In particular, the coverage properties of the two CI methods along with their interval widths are examined for a variety of time-course patterns, error distributions, experimental protocols, and sampling designs. Fieller's method is observed to exceed nominal coverage probabilities for all conditions considered (the coverage probability being the probability that a confidence interval contains a parameter it estimates over repeated experiments). The delta method exhibited observed coverage probabilities lower than nominally specified for a number of conditions. For sampling designs in which more of the sampling times are prior to steady state or the stop exposure time, the delta method is observed to provide nominal coverage probabilities with interval widths much narrower than observed with the Fieller's method. Thus, the delta method is preferable when the above sampling time condition is met; however, in all other cases, Fieller's method should be used.

journal_name

Environ Toxicol Chem

authors

Wheeler MW,Bailer AJ

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-04-01 00:00:00

pages

921-7

issue

4

eissn

0730-7268

issn

1552-8618

journal_volume

22

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Atrazine and metribuzin sorption in soils of the Argentinean humid pampas.

    abstract::Laboratory studies were conducted to determine the influence of surface and subsurface properties of three representative soils of the humid pampas of Argentina on atrazine and metribuzin sorption. Atrazine and metribuzin sorption isotherms were constructed for each soil at four depths. Sorption affinity of herbicides...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:

    authors: Daniel PE,Bedmar F,Costa JL,Aparicio VC

    更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00

  • Agricultural adjuvants: acute mortality and effects on population growth rate of Daphnia pulex after chronic exposure.

    abstract::Acute and chronic toxicity of eight agricultural adjuvants (Bond, Kinetic, Plyac, R-11, Silwet L-77, Sylgard 309, X-77, and WaterMaxx) to Daphnia pulex were evaluated with 48-h acute lethal concentration estimates (LC50) and a 10-d population growth-rate measurement, the instantaneous rate of increase (r1). Based on L...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/02-504

    authors: Stark JD,Walthall WK

    更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00

  • Uptake and Effects of the Beta-Adrenergic Agonist Salbutamol in Fish: Supporting Evidence for the Fish Plasma Model.

    abstract::The fish plasma model (FPM) predicts the fish blood plasma concentration of a pharmaceutical from the water concentration to which the fish is exposed and compares it with the human therapeutic plasma concentration (Hther PC) with the postulate that no adverse toxic effects occur below the Hther PC. The present study ...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.4543

    authors: Weil M,Falkenhain AM,Scheurer M,Ryan JJ,Coors A

    更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00

  • Energy-based modeling as a basis for the analysis of reproductive data with the midge (Chironomus riparius).

    abstract::We propose a biologically based approach to analyze reproductive data for the midge (Chironomus riparius). We showed in a previous study that its larval development can be divided in two distinct phases regarding the use of energy: The somatic growth period and the gametic growth period. We hypothesize here the gameti...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/03-52

    authors: Ducrot V,Péry AR,Mons R,Garric J

    更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00

  • Gene expression, glutathione status, and indicators of hepatic oxidative stress in laughing gull (Larus atricilla) hatchlings exposed to methylmercury.

    abstract::Despite extensive studies of methylmercury (MeHg) toxicity in birds, molecular effects on birds are poorly characterized. To improve our understanding of toxicity pathways and identify novel indicators of avian exposure to Hg, the authors investigated genomic changes, glutathione status, and oxidative status indicator...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.1985

    authors: Jenko K,Karouna-Renier NK,Hoffman DJ

    更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00

  • Comparison of In Situ and Ex Situ Equilibrium Passive Sampling for Measuring Freely Dissolved Concentrations of Parent and Alkylated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments.

    abstract::Equilibrium passive sampling methods (EPSMs) allow quantification of freely dissolved contaminant concentrations (Cfree ) in sediment porewater. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a convenient sampling polymer that can be equilibrated in field (in situ) or laboratory (ex situ) sediments to determine Cfree , providing reli...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.4849

    authors: Reininghaus M,Parkerton TF,Witt G

    更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00

  • Quantitative cationic-activity relationships for predicting toxicity of metals.

    abstract::Developing and validating quantitative cationic-activity relationships or (Q)CARs to predict the toxicity metals is challenging because of issues associated with metal speciation, complexation and interactions within biological systems and the media used to study these interactions. However, a number of simplifying as...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1897/02-568

    authors: Walker JD,Enache M,Dearden JC

    更新日期:2003-08-01 00:00:00

  • Bioaccumulation, toxicokinetics, and effects of copper from sediment spiked with aqueous Cu, nano-CuO, or micro-CuO in the deposit-feeding snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum.

    abstract::The present study examined the relative importance of copper (aqueous Cu and CuO particles of different sizes) added to sediment to determine the bioaccumulation, toxicokinetics, and effects in the deposit feeder Potamopyrgus antipodarum. In experiment 1, the bioaccumulation of Cu (240 µg Cu/g dry wt of sediment) adde...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2216

    authors: Pang C,Selck H,Banta GT,Misra SK,Berhanu D,Dybowska A,Valsami-Jones E,Forbes VE

    更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00

  • Dioxin transfer from sediment to the infaunal surface deposit-feeding polychaete Perinereis nuntia in a laboratory-rearing experiment.

    abstract::In the presented study a laboratory experiment was conducted to investigate the transfer of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from environmentally contaminated marine sediment to an infaunal surface deposit-feeding polycha...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.177

    authors: Kono K,Tanaka H,Koyama J

    更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of low levels of herbicides on prairie species of the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

    abstract::The relative sensitivity of 17 noncrop plant species from Oregon's Willamette Valley was determined in response to glyphosate, tribenuron methyl (tribenuron), and fluazifop-p-butyl (fluazifop) herbicides. For glyphosate, Elymus trachycaulus, Festuca arundinacea, Madia elegans, Potentilla gracilis, and Ranunculus occid...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2331

    authors: Olszyk D,Blakeley-Smith M,Pfleeger T,Lee EH,Plocher M

    更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00

  • 3-Methyl-4-nitrophenol metabolism by uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase and sulfotransferase in liver microsomes of mice, rats, and Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica).

    abstract::3-Methyl-4-nitrophenol (PNMC) is a component of diesel exhaust particles and one of the major breakdown products of the insecticide fenitrothion. This chemical has a high potential for reproductive toxicity in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) and rats. Because PNMC inhaled by the body is metabolized by uridine dipho...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/07-034R1.1

    authors: Lee CH,Kamijima M,Li C,Taneda S,Suzuki AK,Nakajima T

    更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00

  • Zebrafish as a model system to study toxicology.

    abstract::Monitoring and assessing the effects of contaminants in the aquatic eco-environment is critical in protecting human health and the environment. The zebrafish has been widely used as a prominent model organism in different fields because of its small size, low cost, diverse adaptability, short breeding cycle, high fecu...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1002/etc.2406

    authors: Dai YJ,Jia YF,Chen N,Bian WP,Li QK,Ma YB,Chen YL,Pei DS

    更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00

  • Mitochondrial Respiratory Inhibition Promoted by Pyraclostrobin in Fungi is Also Observed in Honey Bees.

    abstract::There is no use restriction associated with bees for many fungicides used in agriculture; however, this does not always mean that these pesticides are harmless for these nontarget organisms. We investigated whether the fungicide pyraclostrobin, which acts on fungal mitochondria, also negatively affects honey bee mitoc...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.4719

    authors: Nicodemo D,Mingatto FE,De Jong D,Bizerra PFV,Tavares MA,Bellini WC,Vicente EF,de Carvalho A

    更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00

  • Use of the Australian crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) as a model test species for investigating the effects of endocrine disruptors.

    abstract::Few studies have investigated the potential reproductive effects of toxicants on Australian freshwater fish species. The present study uses the Australian rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) as a model for testing the potential effects of 17beta-estradiol. Groups of reproductively active rainbowfish were exposed to...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/06-603R.1

    authors: Pollino CA,Georgiades E,Holdway DA

    更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00

  • Implications of interacting microscale habitat heterogeneity and disturbance events on Folsomia candida (Collembola) population dynamics: a modeling approach.

    abstract::The authors implemented a fractal algorithm in a spatially explicit individual-based model to generate landscapes with different microscale patterns of habitat fragmentation and disturbance events and studied their effects on population dynamics of the collembolan Folsomia candida. Among human activities that may caus...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2552

    authors: Meli M,Palmqvist A,Forbes VE

    更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of an antidepressant mixture on the brain serotonin and predation behavior of hybrid striped bass.

    abstract::Antidepressants have been found in measurable concentrations in final treated wastewater effluent and receiving waters throughout the world. Studies have shown that these concentrations are typically not overtly toxic, but the psychotropic mode of action of these chemicals warrants examination of their behavioral effe...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.3114

    authors: Bisesi JH Jr,Sweet LE,van den Hurk P,Klaine SJ

    更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00

  • Differences in Engineered Nanoparticle Surface Physicochemistry Revealed by Investigation of Changes in Copper Bioavailability During Sorption to Nanoparticles in the Aqueous Phase.

    abstract::Sorption of chemical substances to nanoparticles (NPs) in the aqueous phase strongly influences NP physicochemisty, and investigations of these complex interactions can provide important insights into the environmental fate of NPs. The objective of the present study was to use differences in copper (Cu) bioavailabilit...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.4378

    authors: Patsiou D,Kalman J,Fernandes TF,Henry TB

    更新日期:2019-05-01 00:00:00

  • Toxicity of cadmium to early life stages of brown trout (Salmo trutta) at multiple water hardnesses.

    abstract::Toxicity of cadmium to early life stages of brown trout (Salmo trutta) was determined at multiple water hardnesses. Increasing water hardness decreased cadmium toxicity. Postswimup fry were much more sensitive than embryos and larvae. Chronic values from early life stage tests initiated with eyed embryos were 3.52, 6....

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/06-376r.1

    authors: Brinkman SF,Hansen DL

    更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00

  • Toxicant- and response-specific comparisons of statistical methods for estimating effective concentrations.

    abstract::Standard U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) statistical analyses of whole effluent toxicity tests involve the estimation of the concentration associated with a specified level of inhibition relative to control responses. Current U.S. EPA estimation methods (linear interpolation or probit-based methods) ar...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:

    authors: Hughes MR,Bailer AJ,Denton DL

    更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00

  • Toxicity of fluoride to aquatic species and evaluation of toxicity modifying factors.

    abstract::The present study was performed to investigate the toxicity of fluoride to a variety of freshwater aquatic organisms and to establish whether water quality variables contribute substantively to modifying its toxicity. Water hardness, chloride, and alkalinity were tested as possible toxicity modifying factors for fluor...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2963

    authors: Pearcy K,Elphick J,Burnett-Seidel C

    更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00

  • Analysis of estrogens in sediment from a sewage-impacted urban estuary using high-performance liquid chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

    abstract::We describe a highly selective and sensitive method for determination of estrone (E1) and beta-estradiol (E2) in sediments, using high-performance liquid chromatography/time-of-flight (HPLC-ToF) mass spectrometry. The method involved sequential cleanup of sediment extracts over solid phase extraction cartridges, norma...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/04-167r.1

    authors: Reddy S,Brownawell BJ

    更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00

  • Comparative dissolution, uptake, and toxicity of zinc oxide particles in individual aquatic species and mixed populations.

    abstract::Potential differences in species susceptibility to nanoparticle (NP) contaminants make the use of multispecies community toxicity testing strategies beneficial in understanding NP risk to aquatic environments. Because of the limited knowledge of zinc oxide (ZnO) NP fate and toxicity, we conducted multispecies exposure...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.4349

    authors: Wu F,Harper BJ,Harper SL

    更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00

  • Automated method for determination of dissolved organic carbon-water distribution constants of structurally diverse pollutants using pre-equilibrium solid-phase microextraction.

    abstract::Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a key role in determining the environmental fate of semivolatile organic environmental contaminants. The goal of the present study was to develop a method using commercially available hardware to rapidly characterize the sorption properties of DOC in water samples. The resulting me...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2805

    authors: Ripszam M,Haglund P

    更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00

  • Individual and mixture effects of caffeine and sulfamethoxazole on the daggerblade grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio following maternal exposure.

    abstract::Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) such as caffeine and sulfamethoxazole have been detected in the estuarine environment. The present study characterized effects of a maternal exposure of these compounds on the development of the daggerblade grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio from embryo to juvenile life ...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2669

    authors: Garcia RN,Chung KW,DeLorenzo ME,Curran MC

    更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00

  • Utility of morphological abnormalities during early-life development of the estuarine mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, as an indicator of estrogenic and antiestrogenic endocrine disruption.

    abstract::To evaluate the use of morphological abnormalities for standard testing of endocrine-disrupting substances (EDS), we tested the hypothesis that developmental abnormalities are a sensitive indicator of exposure to waterborne estrogenic and antiestrogenic EDS during embryonic, larval, and juvenile stages in the common e...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/03-50

    authors: Boudreau M,Courtenay SC,MacLatchy DL,Bérubé CH,Parrott JL,Van der Kraak GJ

    更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00

  • Polychlorinated biphenyls and toxaphene in Pacific tree frog tadpoles (Hyla regilla) from the California Sierra Nevada, USA.

    abstract::Pacific tree frog (Hyla regilla) tadpoles were collected throughout the Sierra Nevada mountain range, California, USA, in 1996 and 1997 and analyzed for the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Whole-tadpole sigma PCB levels ranged from 244 ng/g (wet wt) at lower elevations on the western slope ...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:

    authors: Angermann JE,Fellers GM,Matsumura F

    更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00

  • Toxicity of extracts from municipal wastewater to early life stages of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) to evaluate removals of micropollutants by wastewater treatment.

    abstract::Treatment of municipal wastewater reduces the concentrations of some pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), hormones, and drugs of abuse. However, reduced concentrations of these micropollutants in wastewater may not correlate with reduced toxicity because transformations of micropollutants and/or the for...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.3939

    authors: Maya N,Crispo C,McFarland V,Nasuhoglu D,Isazadeh S,Yargeau V,Metcalfe CD

    更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00

  • Hepatic and nephric mercury and selenium concentrations in common mergansers, Mergus merganser, from Baltic Region, Europe.

    abstract::The subject of the present study was the piscivorous common mergansers (Mergus merganser). The total mercury (THg), methylmercury (MeHg), selenium (Se) inorganic mercury (InHg; THg - MeHg), percentage of THg that is MeHg (%MeHg), molar ratios (THg:Se, MeHg:Se, InHg:Se), and their mutual relations in livers and kidneys...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2448

    authors: Kalisinska E,Gorecki J,Okonska A,Pilarczyk B,Tomza-Marciniak A,Budis H,Lanocha N,Kosik-Bogacka DI,Kavetska KM,Macherzynski M,Golas J

    更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00

  • Global change and mercury cycling: challenges for implementing a global mercury treaty.

    abstract::The Minamata Convention aims to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury. In the present study, the provisions of the Minamata Convention are examined to assess their influence on global biogeochemical cycling of Hg. Although the convention's scope covers all major ...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1002/etc.2374

    authors: Selin NE

    更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00

  • Release of adsorbed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons under cosolvent treatment: implications for availability and fate.

    abstract::During laboratory and field studies, a fraction of contaminants in soils or sediments often is observed to be highly resistant to desorption. This desorption-resistant fraction may have significant effects on long-term fate and exposure of soil/ sediment-bound contaminants in particular, causing much reduced availabil...

    journal_title:Environmental toxicology and chemistry

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1897/07-170.1

    authors: Chen W,Cong L,Hu H,Zhang P,Li J,Feng Z,Kan AT,Tomson MB

    更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00