Cytotoxic and non-cytotoxic effects of the MEIC reference chemicals on spontaneously contracting primary cultured rat skeletal muscle cells

Toxicology in Vitro

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 395-406

  Gulden M ^a   Seibert, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMPHETAMINE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ATROPINE; CAFFEINE; CHLOROFORM; CHLOROQUINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DRUG; FERROUS SULFATE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; MALATHION; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NICOTINE; ORPHENADRINE; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENOL; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; PROPRANOLOL; QUINIDINE; QUINIDINE SULFATE; THEOPHYLLINE; THIORIDAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0030219867     PISSN: 08872333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0887-2333(96)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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