Lack of oestrogenic effects of food preservatives (parabens) in uterotrophic assays

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-323

  Hossaini, A ^a   Larsen, J J ^a   Larsen, J C ^a  

^a DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mouse; Oestrogen; Parabens; Rat; Uterotrophic assay

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; COSMETIC; FOOD PRESERVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; UTERUS WEIGHT; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOOD PRESERVATIVES; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; PARABENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0034014913     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(99)00160-X     Document Type: Article

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