Sexual maturation and fertility of male and female mice exposed prenatally and postnatally to trivalent and hexavalent chromium compounds

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-183

  Al Hamood, M H ^a   Elbetieha, A ^c   Bataineh, H ^b  

^a JERASH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chromium chloride; Potassium dichromate

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM CHLORIDE; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; LACTATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PROGENY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DRINKING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS; LACTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0031719997     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R97001     Document Type: Article

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