Lessons for neurotoxicology from selected model compounds: SGOMSEC joint report

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1996, Pages 205-215

  Rice, Deborah C ^a   De Duffard, Ana Maria Evangelista ^b   Duffard, Ricardo ^b   Iregren, Anders ^c   Satoh, Hiroshi ^d   Watanabe, Chiho ^d  

^a TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lead; Methylmercury; Neurotoxic potential; Organic solvents; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Screening protocols; Tiered testing

Indexed keywords

LEAD; METHYLMERCURY; NEUROTOXIN; ORGANIC SOLVENT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029898926     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104s2205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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