Lymphocyte proliferative response and tissue distribution of methylmercury sulfide and chloride in exposed rats

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 605-616

  Ortega, Hector G ^a   Lopez, Manuel ^a   Salvaggio, John E ^a   Reimers, Robert ^b   Hsiao Lin, Chen ^b   Bollinger, James E ^a   George, William ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; METHYLMERCURY SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMPARISON; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030923955     PISSN: 00984108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287399709532058     Document Type: Article

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