Developmental disorders in embryos of the frog Xenopus laevis induced by chloroacetanilide herbicides and their degradation products

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 375-379

  Osano, Odipo ^a,b   Admiraal, Wim ^b   Otieno, Dismas ^a  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aniline; Chloroacetanilide; Degradation; Teratogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; DEGRADATION; PESTICIDES;

EMBRYOTOXIC EFFECTS;

HERBICIDES;

2 ETHYL 6 METHYLANILINE; 2,6 DIETHYLANILINE; ACETANILIDE DERIVATIVE; ALACHLOR; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CHLOROACETANILIDE; HERBICIDE; METOLACHLOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EDEMA; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE MALFORMATION; GASTRULA; LC 50; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ACETAMIDES; ANIMALS; EDEMA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036141657     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620210221     Document Type: Article

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