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Avian Models for Toxicity Testing

US Fish and Wildlife Service Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Laurel, MD 20708

D. J. Hoffman

US Fish and Wildlife Service Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Laurel, MD 20708

The use of birds as test models in experimental and environmental toxicology as related to health effects is reviewed, and an overview of descriptive tests routinely used in wildlife toxicology is provided. Toxicologic research on birds may be applicable to human health both directly by their use as models for mechanistic and descriptive studies and indirectly as monitors of environmental quality. Topics include the use of birds as models for study of teratogenesis and embryotoxicity, neurotoxicity, behavior, trends of environmental pollution, and for use in predictive wildlife toxicology. Uses of domestic and wild-captured birds are discussed.

International Journal of Toxicology, Vol. 3, No. 6, 357-376 (1984)
DOI: 10.3109/10915818409104398


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