Evaluation of the mutagenicity of acetochlor to male rat germ cells

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 393, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-281

  Ashby, J ^a   Tinwell, H ^a   Lefevre, P A ^a   Williams, J ^a   Kier, L ^b   Adler, I D ^c   Clapp, M J L ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetochlor; Mutagenicity

Indexed keywords

ACETOCHLOR; GLUTATHIONE; HERBICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; LETHALITY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; GERM CELLS; GLUTATHIONE; HERBICIDES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; PREGNANCY; RATS; SPERM HEAD; TESTIS; TOLUIDINES;

EID: 0030727767     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(97)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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