Toxaphene congeners differ from toxaphene mixtures in their dysmorphogenic effects on cultured rat embryos

Toxicology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-162

  Calciu, Cristina ^a   Chan, Hing Man ^a,b   Kubow, Stan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryo culture; Embryotoxicity; Toxaphene congeners

Indexed keywords

BORNANE DERIVATIVE; CAMPHECLOR; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MORPHOGENESIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXAPHENE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031587568     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00145-5     Document Type: Article

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