Single-dose topical exposure to the pyrethroid insecticide, permethrin in C57BL/6N mice: Effects on thymus and spleen

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1863-1873

  Prater, M R ^a   Gogal Jr , R M ^a   Blaylock, B L ^b   Longstreth, J ^c   Holladay, S D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^c Institute for Global Risk Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C57BL 6N mouse; Chemiluminescence; Immunomodulation; Lymphocyte phenotypes; Permethrin; Pesticide; Plaque forming cell assay; Proliferation; Splenocyte; Thymocyte

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGENIC AGENT; PERMETHRIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMOLYTIC PLAQUE TECHNIQUE; INSECTICIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; PERMETHRIN; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0036888148     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(02)00163-1     Document Type: Article

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