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Furthermore, real-world exposure profiles are rarely constant over time, which makes the use of classical dose-response models difficult and may prevent the derivation of\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ). When dealing with survival or immobility toxicity test data, these issues can be overcome with the use of the general unified threshold model of survival (GUTS), a toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) model that provides an explicit framework to analyse both time- and concentration-dependent data sets as well as obtain a mechanistic derivation of\n EC<\/jats:italic>\n \/\n LC<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) and\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) regardless of\n x<\/jats:italic>\n and at any time\n t<\/jats:italic>\n of interest. In ERA, the assessment of a risk is inherently built upon probability distributions, such that the next critical step is to characterize the uncertainties of toxicity endpoints and, consequently, those of EQSs. With this perspective, we investigated the use of a Bayesian framework to obtain the uncertainties from the calibration process and to propagate them to model predictions, including\n LC<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) and\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) derivations. We also explored the mathematical properties of\n LC<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) and\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) as well as the impact of different experimental designs to provide some recommendations for a robust derivation of toxicity endpoints leading to reliable EQSs: avoid computing\n LC<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) and\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) for extreme\n x<\/jats:italic>\n values (0 or 100%), where uncertainty is maximal; compute\n MF<\/jats:italic>\n (\n x<\/jats:italic>\n ,\n t<\/jats:italic>\n ) after a long period of time to take depuration time into account and test survival under pulses with different periods of time between them.\n <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-019-47698-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,7]],"date-time":"2019-08-07T06:02:56Z","timestamp":1565157776000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":44,"title":["Recommendations to address uncertainties in environmental risk assessment using toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic models"],"prefix":"10.1038","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1327-9728","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Virgile","family":"Baudrot","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4604-0166","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sandrine","family":"Charles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"47698_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPRs). 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