Effects of great lakes fish consumption on the immune system of Sprague- Dawley rats investigated during a two-generation reproductive study. I. Body and organ weights, food consumption, and hematological parameters

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 1 II, 1998, Pages

  Tryphonas, H ^a   McGuire, P ^a   Fernie, S ^a   Miller, D ^b   Stapley, R ^b   Bryce, F ^a   Arnold, D L ^a   Fournier, M ^c  

^a TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LAKE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALMON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYMUS;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SIGANUS;

EID: 0031802752     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtph.1997.1189     Document Type: Article

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