Response of Respiratory Epithelium of BN and F344 Rats to Formaldehyde Inhalation

Experimental Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 279-286

  Ohtsuka, Ryoichi ^a   Shuto, Yasufumi ^b   Fujie, Hideaki ^b   Takeda, Makio ^b   Harada, Takanori ^b   Itagaki, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brown Norway rat; Formaldehyde inhalation; Scanning electron microscopy; Squamous metaplasia

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FISCHER 344 RAT; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; MALE; METAPLASIA; NECROSIS; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; TRACHEA;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FORMALDEHYDE; LUNG; MALE; METAPLASIA; NASAL CAVITY; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; TRACHEA;

EID: 0031252780     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.46.279     Document Type: Article

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