Subchronic inhalation toxicity study of caprolactam (with a 4-week recovery) in the rat via whole-body exposures

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-205

  Reinhold, Roger W ^a,f   Hoffman, Gary M ^b   Bolte, Henry F ^b   Rinehart, William E ^c   Rusch, George M ^a   Parod, Ralph J ^d   Kayser, Martin ^e  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b Huntingdon Life Sciences New Jersey   (United States)

^c Industrial Health Foundation   (United States)

^d BASF CORPORATION   (United States)

^e BASF SE   (Germany)

^f Department of Toxicology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; KERATINIZATION; LARYNX MUCOSA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031691484     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/toxs.1998.2482     Document Type: Article

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