2025 (2)

• Eze, O.O., Ogbuene, E.B., Ibraheem, O., Küster, E., Eze, T.C. (2025):
  Novel flame retardants (NFRs) in e-waste: Environmental burdens, health implications, and recommendations for safety assessment and sustainable management
  Toxicology 511 , art. 154037 10.1016/j.tox.2024.154037
• Michaelis, P., Klüver, N., Aulhorn, S., Bohring, H., Bumberger, J., Haase, K., Kuhnert, T., Küster, E., Krüger, J., Luckenbach, T., Massei, R., Nerlich, L., Petruschke, S., Schnicke, T., Schnurpel, A., Scholz, S., Schweiger, N., Sielaff, D., Busch, W. (2025):
  Leveraging zebrafish embryo phenotypic observations to advance data-driven analyses in toxicology
  Environ. Sci. Technol. 59 (9), 4304 - 4317 10.1021/acs.est.4c11757

2024 (1)

• Pastor-López, E.J., Escolà, M., Kisielius, V., Arias, C.A., Carvalho, P.N., Gorito, A.M., Ramos, S., Freitas, V., Guimarães, L., Almeida, C.M.R., Müller, J.A., Küster, E., Kilian, R.M., Diawara, A., Ba, S., Matamoros, V. (2024):
  Potential of nature-based solutions to reduce antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, and pathogens in aquatic ecosystems. a critical review
  Sci. Total Environ. 946 , art. 174273 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174273

2023 (2)

• Küster, E., Addo, G.G., Aulhorn, S., Kühnel, D. (2023):
  Miniaturisation of the Daphnia magna immobilisation assay for the reliabletesting of low volume samples
  UCL Open Environment Preprint 10.14324/111.444/000219.v1
• Massei, R., Brack, W., Seidensticker, S., Hollert, H., Muz, M., Schulze, T., Krauss, M., Küster, E. (2023):
  Neurotoxicity in complex environmental mixtures—a case-study at River Danube in Novi Sad (Serbia) using zebrafish embryos
  Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 30 (42), 96138 - 96146 10.1007/s11356-023-29186-1

2022 (1)

• Liess, M., Liebmann, L., Lück, M., Vormeier, P., Weisner, O., Foit, K., Knillmann, S., Schäfer, R.B., Schulze, T., Krauss, M., Brack, W., Reemtsma, T., Halbach, K., Link, M., Schreiner, V.C., Schneeweiss, A., Möder, M., Weitere, M., Kaske, O., von Tümpling, W., Gunold, R., Ulrich, N., Paschke, A., Schüürmann, G., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Küster, E., Borchardt, D. (2022):
  Umsetzung des Nationalen Aktionsplans zur nachhaltigen Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln (NAP) – Pilotstudie zur Ermittlung der Belastung von Kleingewässern in der Agrarlandschaft mit Pflanzenschutzmittel-Rückständen. Abschlussbericht, Forschungskennzahl 3717 63 403 0
  Texte Umweltbundesamt 07/2022
  Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau, 319 S.

2021 (3)

• Ogungbemi, A.O., Massei, R., Altenburger, R., Scholz, S., Küster, E. (2021):
  Assessing combined effects for mixtures of similar and dissimilar acting neuroactive substances on zebrafish embryo movement
  Toxics 9 (5), art. 104 10.3390/toxics9050104
• Ogungbemi, A.O., Teixido, E., Massei, R., Scholz, S., Küster, E. (2021):
  Automated measurement of the spontaneous tail coiling of zebrafish embryos as a sensitive behavior endpoint using a workflow in KNIME
  MethodsX 8 , art. 101330 10.1016/j.mex.2021.101330
• Teixidó, E., Klüver, N., Ogungbemi, A.O., Küster, E., Scholz, S. (2021):
  Evaluation of neurotoxic effects in zebrafish embryos by automatic measurement of early motor behaviors
  In: Llorens, J., Barenys, M. (eds.)
  Experimental neurotoxicology methods
  Neuromethods 172
  Springer Nature, p. 381 - 397 10.1007/978-1-0716-1637-6_17

2020 (2)

• Mohaupt, V., Völker, J., Altenburger, R., Birk, S., Kirst, I., Kühnel, D., Küster, E., Semeradova, S., Šubelj, G. (2020):
  Pesticides in European rivers, lakes and groundwaters – Data assessment
  ETC/ICM Technical Report 1/2020
  European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Magdeburg, 86 pp.
• Ogungbemi, A.O., Teixido, E., Massei, R., Scholz, S., Küster, E. (2020):
  Optimization of the spontaneous tail coiling test for fast assessment of neurotoxic effects in the zebrafish embryo using an automated workflow in KNIME®
  Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 81 , art. 106918 10.1016/j.ntt.2020.106918

2019 (3)

• Küster, E., Kalkhof, S., Aulhorn, S., von Bergen, M., Gündel, U. (2019):
  Effects of five substances with different modes of action on cathepsin H, C and L activities in zebrafish embryos
  Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 16 (20), art. 3956 10.3390/ijerph16203956
• Massei, R., Hollert, H., Krauss, M., von Tümpling, W., Weidauer, C., Haglund, P., Küster, E., Gallampois, C., Tysklind, M., Brack, W. (2019):
  Toxicity and neurotoxicity profiling of contaminated sediments from Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden): a multi‑endpoint assay with zebrafish embryos
  Environ. Sci. Eur. 31 , art. 8 10.1186/s12302-019-0188-y
• Ogungbemi, A., Leuthold, D., Scholz, S., Küster, E. (2019):
  Hypo- or hyperactivity of zebrafish embryos provoked by neuroactive substances: a review on how experimental parameters impact the predictability of behavior changes
  Environ. Sci. Eur. 31 , art. 88 10.1186/s12302-019-0270-5

2017 (2)

• Kühnert, A., Vogs, C., Seiwert, B., Aulhorn, S., Altenburger, R., Hollert, H., Küster, E., Busch, W. (2017):
  Biotransformation in the zebrafish embryo – temporal gene transcription changes of cytochrome P450 enzymes and internal exposure dynamics of the AhR binding xenobiotic benz[a]anthracene
  Environ. Pollut. 230 , 1 - 11 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.04.083
• Välitalo, P., Massei, R., Heiskanen, I., Behnisch, P., Brack, W., Tindall, A.J., Du Pasquier, D., Küster, E., Mikola, A., Schulze, T., Sillanpää, M. (2017):
  Effect-based assessment of toxicity removal during wastewater treatment
  Water Res. 126 , 153 - 163 10.1016/j.watres.2017.09.014

2016 (3)

• Brox, S., Seiwert, B., Haase, N., Küster, E., Reemtsma, T. (2016):
  Metabolism of clofibric acid in zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio) as determined by liquid chromatography–high resolution–mass spectrometry
  Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C-Toxicol. Pharmacol. 185–186 , 20 - 28 10.1016/j.cbpc.2016.02.007
• Brox, S., Seiwert, B., Küster, E., Reemtsma, T. (2016):
  Toxicokinetics of polar chemicals in zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio): Influence of physicochemical properties and of niological processes
  Environ. Sci. Technol. 50 (18), 10264 - 10272 10.1021/acs.est.6b04325
• Schmidt, S., Busch, W., Altenburger, R., Küster, E. (2016):
  Mixture toxicity of water contaminants-effect analysis using the zebrafish embryo assay (Danio rerio)
  Chemosphere 152 , 503 - 512 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.03.006

2015 (3)

• Hachicho, N., Reithel, S., Miltner, A., Heipieper, H.J., Küster, E., Luckenbach, T. (2015):
  Body mass parameters, lipid profiles and protein contents of zebrafish embryos and effects of 2,4-dinitrophenol exposure
  PLOS One 10 (8), e0134755 10.1371/journal.pone.0134755
• Luckenbach, T., Küster, E., Busch, W., Scholz, S., Altenburger, R. (2015):
  What determines chemical uptake by the zebrafish embryo model?
  Toxicol. Lett. 238 (2, Suppl.), S54 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.08.151
• Vogs, C., Kühnert, A., Hug, C., Küster, E., Altenburger, R. (2015):
  A toxicokinetic study of specifically acting and reactive organic chemicals for the prediction of internal effect concentrations in Scenedesmus vacuolatus
  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 34 (1), 100 - 111 10.1002/etc.2764

2014 (2)

• Brox, S., Ritter, A.P., Küster, E., Reemtsma, T. (2014):
  A quantitative HPLC–MS/MS method for studying internal concentrations and toxicokinetics of 34 polar analytes in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos
  Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 406 (20), 4831 - 4840 10.1007/s00216-014-7929-y
• Brox, S., Ritter, A.P., Küster, E., Reemtsma, T. (2014):
  Influence of the perivitelline space on the quantification of internal concentrations of chemicals in eggs of zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio)
  
  Aquat. Toxicol. 157 , 134 - 140 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.10.008

2013 (4)

• Grummt, T., Kuckelkorn, J., Bahlmann, A., Baumstark-Khan, C., Brack, W., Braunbeck, T., Feles, S., Gartiser, S., Glatt, H., Heinze, R., Hellweg, C.E., Hollert, H., Junek, R., Knauer, M., Kneib-Kissinger, B., Kramer, M., Krauss, M., Küster, E., Maletz, S., Meinl, W., Noman, A., Prantl, E.-M., Rabbow, E., Redelstein, R., Rettberg, P., Schadenboeck, W., Schmidt, C., Schulze, T., Seiler, T.-B., Spitta, L., Stengel, D., Waldmann, P., Eckhardt, A. (2013):
  Tox-Box: securing drops of life - an enhanced health-related approach for risk assessment of drinking water in Germany. Tox-Box: die Tropfen des Lebens bewahren - gesundheitsbasierte Risikobewertung für Trinkwasser in Deutschland
  
  Environ. Sci. Eur. 25 , art. 27 10.1186/2190-4715-25-27
• Kühnert, A., Vogs, C., Altenburger, R., Küster, E. (2013):
  The internal concentration of organic substances in fish embryos - a toxicokinetic approach
  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 32 (8), 1819 - 1827 10.1002/etc.2239
• Scholz, S., Sela, E., Blaha, L., Braunbeck, T., Galay-Burgos, M., García-Franco, M., Guinea, J., Klüver, N., Schirmer, K., Tanneberger, K., Tobor-Kapłon, M., Witters, H., Belanger, S., Benfenati, E., Creton, S., Cronin, M.T.D., Eggen, R.I.L., Embry, M., Ekman, D., Gourmelon, A., Halder, M., Hardy, B., Hartung, T., Hubesch, B., Jungmann, D., Lampi, M.A., Lee, L., Léonard, M., Küster, E., Lillicrap, A., Luckenbach, T., Murk, A.J., Navas, J.M., Peijnenburg, W., Repetto, G., Salinas, E., Schüürmann, G., Spielmann, H., Tollefsen, K.E., Walter-Rohde, S., Whale, G., Wheeler, J.R., Winter, M.J. (2013):
  A European perspective on alternatives to animal testing for environmental hazard identification and risk assessment
  Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 67 (3), 506 - 530 10.1016/j.yrtph.2013.10.003
• Wahyudi, A., Bartzke, M., Küster, E., Bogaert, P. (2013):
  Maximum entropy estimation of a Benzene contaminated plume using ecotoxicological assays
  Environ. Pollut. 172 , 170 - 179 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.08.018

2012 (1)

• Gündel, U., Kalkhof, S., Zitzkat, D.P., von Bergen, M., Altenburger, R., Küster, E. (2012):
  Concentration-response concept in ecotoxicoproteomics: effects of different phenanthrene concentrations to the zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo proteome
  Ecotox. Environ. Safe. 76 (1), 11 - 22 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.10.010

2011 (1)

• Agbo, S.O., Küster, E., Georgi, A., Akkanen, J., Leppänen, M.T., Kukkonen, J.V.K. (2011):
  Photostability and toxicity of pentachlorophenol and phenanthrene
  J. Hazard. Mater. 189 (1-2), 235 - 240 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.02.024

2010 (4)

• Duquesne, S., Küster, E. (2010):
  Biochemical, metabolic, and behavioural responses and recovery of Daphnia magna after exposure to an organophosphate
  Ecotox. Environ. Safe. 73 (3), 353 - 359 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.11.008
• Gündel, U., Kalkhof, S., von Bergen, M., Altenburger, R., Küster, E. (2010):
  Concentration-response concept in ecotoxicoproteomics: an optimised design for the detection of robust chemical stress associated protein markers: Effects of different concentrations of phenanthren to the proteome of Danio rerio embryos
  Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A-Mol. Integr. Physiol. 157 (Suppl. 1), S42 - S43 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.06.119
• Hanisch, K., Küster, E., Altenburger, R., Gündel, U. (2010):
  Proteomic signatures of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo: sensitivity and specificity in toxicity assessment of chemicals
  International Journal of Proteomics 2010 , Article ID 630134 - 13 10.1155/2010/630134
• Meinert, C., Schymanski, E., Küster, E., Kühne, R., Schüürmann, G., Brack, W. (2010):
  Application of preparative capillary gas chromatography (pcGC), automated structure generation and mutagenicity prediction to improve effect-directed analysis of genotoxicants in a contaminated groundwater
  Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 17 (4), 885 - 897 10.1007/s11356-009-0286-2

2009 (1)

• Schreiber, R., Altenburger, R., Paschke, A., Schüürmann, G., Küster, E. (2009):
  A novel in vitro system for the determination of bioconcentration factors and the internal dose in zebrafish (Danio rerio) eggs
  Chemosphere 77 (7), 928 - 933 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.08.038

2008 (4)

• Küster, E., Altenburger, R. (2008):
  Oxygen decline in biotesting of environmental samples - Is there a need for consideration in the acute zebrafish embryo assay?
  Environ.Toxicol. 23 (6), 745 - 750 10.1002/tox.20377
• Mages, M., Bandow, N., Küster, E., Brack, W., von Tümpling, W. (2008):
  Zinc and cadmium accumulation in single zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos - A total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry application
  Spectroc. Acta Pt. B-Atom. Spectr. 63 (12), 1443 - 1449 10.1016/j.sab.2008.10.015
• Scholz, S., Fischer, S., Gündel, U., Küster, E., Luckenbach, T., Voelker, D. (2008):
  The zebrafish embryo model in environmental risk assessment - applications beyond acute toxicity testing
  Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 15 (5), 394 - 404 10.1007/s11356-008-0018-z
• Schreiber, R., Altenburger, R., Paschke, A., Küster, E. (2008):
  How to deal with lipophilic and volatile organic substances in microtiter plate assays
  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 27 (8), 1676 - 1682 10.1897/07-504.1

2007 (2)

• Gündel, U., Benndorf, D., von Bergen, M., Altenburger, R., Küster, E. (2007):
  Vitellogenin cleavage products as indicators for toxic stress in zebra fish embryos: a proteomic approach
  Proteomics 7 (24), 4541 - 4554 10.1002/pmic.200700381
• Küster, E., Altenburger, R. (2007):
  Suborganismic and organismic effects of aldicarb and its metabolite aldicarb-sulfoxide to the zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio)
  Chemosphere 68 (4), 751 - 760 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.12.093

2006 (2)

• Altenburger, R., Brack, W., Greco, W.R., Grote, M., Jung, K., Ovari, A., Riedl, J., Schwab, K., Küster, E. (2006):
  On the mode of action of N-phenyl-2-naphthylamine in plants
  Environ. Sci. Technol. 40 (19), 6163 - 6169 10.1021/es060338e
• Küster, E., Altenburger, R. (2006):
  Comparison of cholin- and carboxylesterase enzyme inhibition and visible effects in the zebra fish embryo bioassay under short-term paraoxon-methyl exposure
  Biomarkers 11 (4), 341 - 354 10.1080/13547500600742136

2005 (5)

• Kaschl, A., Schultz, A., Vogt, C., Dorusch, F., Popp, P., Borsdorf, H., Küster, E., Kuschk, P., Kästner, M., Weiß, H. (2005):
  A meso-scale constructed wetland for the remediation of chlorobenzene contaminated groundwater
  In: Thomson, N.R. (ed.)
  Bringing groundwater quality research to the watershed scale (GQ2004 International conference of groundwater quality, Waterloo, Canada, 19-22 July 2004)
  IAHS Publ. 297
  International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, p. 404 - 411
• Küster, E. (2005):
  Cholin- and carboxylesterase activities in developing zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio) and their potential use for insecticide hazard assessment
  Aquat. Toxicol. 75 (1), 76 - 85 10.1016/j.aquatox.2005.07.005
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Altenburger, R. (2005):
  Toxizität von Schwefelwasserstoff (H₂S) auf die Biotestorganismen Vibrio fischeri und Daphnia magna
  Tagungsbericht 2004 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie e.V. (DGL) und der Deutschsprachigen Sektion der Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL). Potsdam, 20. - 24.09.2004
  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie, Berlin, 561 - 565
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Altenburger, R. (2005):
  Effects of hydrogen sulfide to Vibrio fischeri, Scenedesmus vacuolatus, and Daphnia magna
  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 24 (10), 2621 - 2629 10.1897/04-546R.1
• Olajire, A.A., Altenburger, R., Küster, E., Brack, W. (2005):
  Chemical and ecotoxicological assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated sediments of the Niger Delta, Southern Nigeria
  Sci. Total Environ. 340 (1-3), 123 - 136 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.08.014

2004 (2)

• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Altenburger, R. (2004):
  Ökotoxikologische Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse für das Management von Grundwasser-Kontaminationen: Fallbeispiel quartärer Grundwasserleiter in Bitterfeld-Süd
  In: Weiß, H., Teutsch, G., Daus, B. (Hrsg.)
  SAFIRA (Sanierungsforschung in regional kontaminierten Aquiferen)
  UFZ-Bericht 13/2004
  UFZ Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Leipzig, S. 287 - 316
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Vogt, C., Weiß, H., Altenburger, R. (2004):
  On line biomonitors used as a tool for toxicity reduction evaluation of in situ groundwater remediation techniques
  Biosens. Bioelectron. 19 (12), 1711 - 1722 10.1016/j.bios.2004.01.007

2003 (4)

• Brack, W., Altenburger, R., Küster, E., Meissner, B., Wenzel, K.-D., Schüürmann, G. (2003):
  Identification of toxic products of anthracene photomodification in simulated sunlight
  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22 (10), 2228 - 2237 10.1897/02-450
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Meißner, B., Weiß, H., Schüürmann, G., Altenburger, R. (2003):
  Toxizitätsreduktion durch (Grundwasser-) Sanierung? Erfolgskontrolle von In-situ-Grundwasser- Sanierungsverfahren mithilfe von kontinuierlichen und diskontinuierlichen Biotests
  Grundwasser 8 (1), 32 - 40 10.1007/s007670300004
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Weiß, H., Altenburger, R. (2003):
  Controlling (groundwater-) remediation success via on line biomonitoring or how toxic is remediated groundwater?
  ConSoil 2003 : proceedings of the 8th International FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil, ICC Gent, Belgium, 12 - 16 May 2003
  F&U confirm, Leipzig, 3305 - 3314
• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Weiß, H., Schüürmann, G., Altenburger, R. (2003):
  Beurteilung der Entgiftung von Grundwasser durch Sanierungsverfahren mittels kontinuierlicher biologischer Überwachung
  In: Foth, H. (Hrsg.)
  Risk assessment and management of large contamination sites. Gefahrenabschätzung und Handhabung großflächiger Kontaminationen. Proceedingsband zum Kongress an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 22. - 24. Februar 2002
  S. 41 - 45

2001 (1)

• Küster, E., Dorusch, F., Weiß, H., Altenburger, R. (2001):
  TRE-Toxicity-Reduction-Evaluation - Approaches for continuous effect monitoring of in situ groundwater remediation techniques
  11th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe, Madrid, Spain, 6-10 May 2001
  SETAC Europe, Brussels,

2000 (1)

• Mühlbauer, B., Küster, E., Luippold, G. (2000):
  Dopamine D₃ receptors in the rat kidney: Role in physiology and pathophysiology
  Acta Physiol.Scand. 168 (1), 219 - 223 10.1046/j.1365-201x.2000.00665.x