Acute exposure of female hamsters to carbendazim (MBC) during meiosis results in aneuploid oocytes with subsequent arrest of embryonic cleavage and implantation

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 183-189

  Jeffay, Susan C ^a   Libbus, Bisharah L ^b   Barbee, Randy R ^a   Perreault, Sally D ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Genetic Research Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Carbendazim; Chromosome; Implantation; Meiosis; Methyl 1H benzimidazole 2 carbamate; Oocyte; Preimplantation embryo

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBENDAZIM; FUNGICIDE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HAMSTER; MEIOSIS; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROESTRUS; ZYGOTE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CARBAMATES; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRICETINAE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROESTRUS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030138439     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0890-6238(96)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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