An Interlaboratory Evaluation of Five Pairs of Teratogens and Non-teratogens in Post-implantation Rat Embryo Culture

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-209

  Piersma, Aldert H ^a   Bechter, Rudolf ^b   Krafft, Nathalie ^b   Schmid, Beat P ^c   Stadler, Jeanne ^d   Verhoef, Aart ^a   Verseil, Christian ^d   Zijlstra, Jacob ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Sandoz Pharma Ltd   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Embryotoxicity; In vitro screening; Rat embryo culture; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001206793     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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