Embryotoxic and teratogenic effects of indium chloride in rats and rabbits

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-42

  Ungváry, Gyærgy ^a   Szakmáry, Éva ^a   Tátrai, Erzsébet ^a   Hudák, Aranka ^a   Náray, Miklæs ^a   Morvai, Veronika ^b  

^a Jozsef Fodor National Center of Public Health   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM CHLORIDE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLUBFOOT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EXENCEPHALY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SYNDACTYLY; TERATOGENESIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBINS; INDIUM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERATOGENS;

EID: 0034645765     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/009841000157050     Document Type: Article

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