Comparative acute toxicity and primary irritancy of the ethylidene and vinyl isomers of norbornene

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 211-221

  Ballantyne, Bryan ^a   Myers, Roy C ^b   Klonne, Dennis R ^c  

^a UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Brown and Root Ennvironmental   (United States)

^c Rhone Poulenc Ag Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Convulsions; Ethylidene norbornene; Eye; Inhalation; Irritancy; Oral; Rabbit; Rat; Skin; Vinyl norbornene

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HYPEREMIA; INHALATION; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN TOXICITY; TREMOR; VAPOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CARCINOGENS; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HYPEREMIA; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NORBORNANES; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; STEREOISOMERISM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030814411     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1263(199707)17:4<211::AID-JAT430>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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