Metabolism of fluroxypyr, fluroxypyr methyl ester, and the herbicide fluroxypyr methylheptyl ester. I: During percutaneous absorption through fresh rat and human skin in vitro

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 748-754

  Hewitt, Philip G ^a,b   Perkins, John ^a   Hotchkiss, Sharon A M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTER; ESTERASE; HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; ENZYME METABOLISM; EPIDERMIS; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN PENETRATION; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ANIMALS; GLYCOLATES; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SKIN ABSORPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033940084     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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