Maternal and developmental toxicity of polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (PCDEs) in Swiss-Webster mice and Sprague-Dawley rats

Toxicology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-204

  Rosiak, Kimberly ^a   Li, Mei Hui ^a,c   Degitz, Sigmund J ^a,d   Skalla, Dale W ^a   Chu, Ih ^b   Francis, B Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Diphenyl ethers; Mouse; Rat

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOXICITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2B1; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INDUCTION; ETHERS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HARDERIAN GLAND; LITTER SIZE; LIVER; MICE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030840668     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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