Mechanism of acute inhalation toxicity of alkanes and aliphatic alcohols

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Hau, Ka M ^a,c   Connell, Des W ^a   Richardson, Bruce J ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acute inhalation toxicity; Alcohols; Alkanes; Partition; Quantitative structure activity relationships; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; BUTANE; BUTANOL; DECANE; DECANOL; HEPTANE; HEPTANOL; HEXANE; METHANOL; NONANOL; OCTANE; PENTANE; PROPANOL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHALATION; LC 50; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RAT;

EID: 0033166912     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1382-6689(99)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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