Paraquat embryotoxicity in the Xenopus laevis cleavage phase

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 85-93

  Vismara, Claudio ^a   Bacchetta, Renato ^a   Cacciatore, Bruno ^a   Vailati, Giovanni ^a   Fascio, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Confocal microscopy; Embryotoxicity; FETAX; Paraquat; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PARAQUAT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

HERBICIDE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG OXIDATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARAQUAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035501770     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-445X(01)00153-9     Document Type: Article

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