Reproductive toxicity and tissue concentrations of low doses of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in male offspring rats exposed throughout pregnancy and lactation

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 383-392

  Faqi, Ali S ^a   Dalsenter, Paulo R ^a   Merker, Hans Joachim ^a   Chahoud, Ibrahim ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; LIVER; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032103386     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1998.8433     Document Type: Article

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