Developmental toxicity evaluation of inhaled toluene diisocyanate vapor in CD rats

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 248-257

  Tyl, Rochelle W ^a,d   Fisher, Louann C ^a   Dodd, Darol E ^a,e   Pritts, Irwin M ^a   Kubena, Mildred F ^a   Losco, Patricia E ^a,f   Troup, Catherine M ^a,g   Lyon, James P ^b   Landry, Timothy D ^c  

^a Bushy Run Research Center   (United States)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Nycomed Inc   (United States)

^g Mallinkrodt   (United States)

Author keywords

CD (Sprague Dawley) rat; Developmental toxicity; Fetal skeletal variations; Gestational parameters; Maternal toxicity; Toluene diisocyanate vapor; Whole body exposure

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE DIISOCYANATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FETOTOXICITY; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RAT; SKELETON MALFORMATION;

EID: 0033377626     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/52.2.248     Document Type: Article

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