Testicular toxicity evaluation of arsenic-containing binary compound semiconductors, gallium arsenide and indium arsenide, in hamsters

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-129

  Omura, Minoru ^a   Hirata, Miyuki ^a   Tanaka, Akiyo ^a   Zhao, Mangen ^a   Makita, Yuji ^a   Inoue, Naohide ^a   Gotoh, Kaoru ^b   Ishinishi, Noburu ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

^c NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic oxide; Gallium arsenide; Hamster; Indium arsenide; Intratracheal instillation; Testicular toxicity

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; EPIDIDYMIS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0030590959     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(96)03796-4     Document Type: Article

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