Evaluation of the developmental toxicity of formamide in New Zealand White rabbits

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 165-174

  George, Julia D ^a   Price, Catherine J ^a   Marr, Melissa C ^a   Myers, Christina B ^a   Jahnke, Gloria D ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Formamide; Morphological development; Rabbits; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

FORMAMIDE; WATER;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FECES LEVEL; FEEDING; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RABBIT; SKELETON MALFORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; FORMAMIDES; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; TERATOGENS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036740232     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/69.1.165     Document Type: Article

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