Rapid communication: Elevated ovarian and thymic cell apoptosis in wild cotton rats inhabiting petrochemicalcontaminated terrestrial ecosystems

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 521-527

  Savabieasfahani, Mozhgan ^a   Lochmiller, Robert L ^a   Janz, David M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; OVARY CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOIL POLLUTION; THYMOCYTE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PETROLEUM; RATS; SIGMODONTINAE; SOIL POLLUTANTS; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI; MAMMALIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033609972     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/009841099157485     Document Type: Article

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