Glycine Modulates the Toxicity of Benzyl Acetate in F344 Rats

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-402

  Abdo, Kamal M ^a   Wenk, Martin L ^a   Harry, G Jean ^b   Mahler, Joel ^b   Goehl, Thomas J ^b   Irwin, Richard D ^b  

^a Microbiological Associates Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzyl acetate; brain; glycine; neurodegeneration; rats

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BENZYL ACETATE; EXCITOTOXIN; GLYCINE; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BENZYL COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLYCINE; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; NECROSIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEIZURES; SURVIVAL RATE; WEIGHT LOSS;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA;

EID: 0031966756     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019262339802600314     Document Type: Article

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