Toxicity of 20 Chemicals from the MEIC Programme Determined by Growth Inhibition of L-929 Fibroblast-like Cells

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-59

  Järkelid, Lena ^a   Kjellstrand, Per ^a   Martinson, Evi ^a   Wieslander, Anders ^a  

^a Gambro AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Inhibition of cell growth; L 929 cells; MEIC

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002644773     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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