Dose response and time course of alterations in tryptophan metabolism by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (tcdd) in the most tcdd-susceptible and the most tcdd-resistant rat strain: Relationship with tcdd lethality

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 280-292

  Unkila, Mikko ^a   Pohjanvirta, Raimo ^a   Macdonald, Ewen ^b   Tuomisto, Jouni T ^a   Tuomisto, Jouko ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; LETHALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BILIRUBIN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN OXYGENASE;

EID: 0028080445     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1994.1208     Document Type: Article

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