An up-and-down procedure for acute toxicity testing

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 151-157

  Bruce, Robert D ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INTOXICATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0021913386     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/5.1.151     Document Type: Article

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