Journal of Toxicological Education

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Welcome to the repository for the Journal of Toxicology Education. This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles and peer-reviewed teaching materials for those interested in toxicology education. Accepted materials include lecture strategies, laboratory materials, instructional methods, pedagogy, recorded video lectures, recorded audio lectures, podcasts, textbook reviews, and other materials. If in doubt whether a submission qualifies for publishing in the Journal, please email the editor.

Materials targeted at any audience, from post-graduate education to middle school, and to the general public, are accepted.

To submit to the journal, email the submission to Joshua Gray. The style guide of the Journal of Chemical Education is utilized for this journal*. Acceptable submissions include: Editorials, Commentaries, Letters, and Additions and Corrections, Articles, Communications, Demonstrations, Laboratory Experiments, Activities, and Technology Reports. For more details, read the style guide. Articles are published online immediately upon acceptance. There is no print version of this journal.

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There is no charge to publish at JToxEd. Articles published in JToxEd are published under the Creative Commons license and can be cross-reference at the Life Sciences Teaching Resource Collection (lifescitrc.org) and at Course Source (coursesource.org). The Editorial Board meeting will occur at the annual Society of Toxicology conference. Check back for details.

The current editorial board includes prominent undergraduate educators within the discipline of toxicology who actively participate in and lead the Society of Toxicology's undergraduate education programs.***:

***JToxEd is an independent effort not affiliated with the American Chemical Society or the Society of Toxicology.

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    A Toxicological Study using Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a Model
    (Journal of Toxicological Education, 2013) Reynolds, Mindy
    Only recently has it been adequately recognized that substances present in the environment can have adverse effects on developing organisms. Now, with environmental pollutants accumulating at an unprecedented rate, and with pharmaceuticals dominating western medicine, it is particularly important that we understand the effects of the substances to which we are exposed. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become a widely used model system for the study of vertebrate development. This system is particularly amenable for use in the undergraduate laboratories because of the ease of collection and manipulation and the rapid rate of development. In this lab, students use zebrafish to examine the effects of nicotine, ethanol, and retinoic acid on normal development. Students first examine normal development and compare it to overall growth, dry weight, and behavior of zebrafish exposed to these chemicals. The students may also collect data on LC50 and notochord length. The quantitative data is evaluated for statistically significant differences between treatments. Finally, students write a research proposal for an independent experiment in which they expose embryos to a toxicant of their choice, carry out the experiment, and present their findings. This lab introduces students to the use of animal models and incorporates experimental design and data analysis. More importantly, it introduces

The Journal of Toxicological Education encourages publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, but will also accept articles under any Creative Commons licensing agreement, including the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license.

Please see the Creative Commons website for more details. The goal of this licensing is to enable the author to retain copyright control of their work, while allowing the journal to freely distribute a copy of that work to all readers, without a submission fee and without a subscription fee. All articles will be published in the institutional repository of the MBLWHOI Library, WHOAS. Once published here, the document may not be removed.

If you have any questions regarding the journal, please contact Joshua Gray.