Decreased endurance to cold water swimming and delayed sexual maturity in the rat following neonatal lead exposure

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 135-141

  Yu, Sheng Y ^a   Mizinga, Kemmy M ^a   Nonavinakere, Vani K ^a   Soliman, Karam F A ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Neonatal; Rats; Sexual maturity; Stress; Swimming

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD ACETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL MATURITY; STRESS; SWIMMING;

EID: 0029946110     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(96)03655-7     Document Type: Article

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