Absence of dominant lethal effects in male CD rats exposed to 5- ethylidene-2-norbornene vapor

Toxic Substance Mechanisms

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 389-404

  Neeper Bradley, Teresa L ^a   Ballantyne, Bryan ^a  

^a UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACETALDOXIME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHALATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; VAPOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029909038     PISSN: 10769188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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