Increased urinary excretion of thioethers as a marker for detecting exposure to herbicide containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid dimethylamine - Experimental study on mice

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-63

  Mikov, Ivan ^a   Milosevic, Miodrag ^b   Mikov, Aleksandra ^c   Mikov, Momir ^c  

^a Institute of Occupational Health   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid dimethylamine; Excretion; Exposure; Herbicide; Mice; Thioethers; Urine

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; SULFIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0033937267     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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