Gestational retinoic acid exposure: A sensitive period for effects on neonatal mortality and cerebellar development

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 335-346

  Holson, R Robert ^a   Gazzara, Russell A ^a   Ferguson, Sherry A ^a   Ali, Syed F ^a   Laborde, James B ^a   Adams, Jane ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

All trans retinoic acid; Brain developement; Cerebellum; Lethality; Mortality

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TERATOGENICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; EATING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; TRETINOIN; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030827060     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(97)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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