Effect of administration of malathion for 90 days on macrophage function and mast cell degranulation

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-82

  Rodgers, Kathleen ^a   Xiong, Shiquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic; Immunotoxicity; Macrophage; Malathion; Mast cell; Organophosphate

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; MALATHION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; SKIN; UTERUS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN D; CELL DEGRANULATION; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; INSECTICIDES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALATHION; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RESPIRATORY BURST; SKIN; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031578447     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(97)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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