Promotion of endometriosis by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in rats and mice: Time-Dose dependence and species comparison

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-139

  Cummings, Audrey M ^a   Metcalf, Joan L ^a   Birnbaum, Linda ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THYMUS ATROPHY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029893731     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0106     Document Type: Article

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