Short-term and subchronic repeated exposure studies with 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene vapor in the rat

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 197-210

  Ballantyne, Bryan ^a,h   Norris, James C ^b   Dodd, Darol E ^c   Klonne, Dennis R ^d   Losco, Patricia E ^e   Neptun, Douglas A ^f   Price, Shirley C ^g   Grasso, Paul ^g  

^a UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Rhone Poulenc   (United States)

^e Nycomed Inc   (United States)

^f Novel Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^h Nippon Petrochemicals Union C   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethylidene norbornene; Rat; Repeated inhalation exposure; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INHALATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; VAPOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; CREATININE; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NORBORNANES; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030752012     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1263(199707)17:4<197::AID-JAT429>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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