Comparative potencies of aroclors 1232, 1242, 1248, 1254, and 1260 in male wistar rats-assessment of the toxic equivalency factor (TEF) approach for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 456-463

  Harris, Mark ^a   Zacharewski, Tim ^a   Safe, Stephen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR; AROCLOR 1242; AROCLOR 1248; AROCLOR 1260; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME INDUCTION; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYMUS ATROPHY;

ANIMAL; AROCLORS; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; ATROPHY; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2B1; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; MALE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0027230529     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/20.4.456     Document Type: Article

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