The teratogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate-Roundup® in Wistar rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Dallegrave, Eliane ^a   Mantese, Fabiana DiGiorgio ^a   Coelho, Ricardo Soares ^a   Pereira, Janaína Drawans ^a   Dalsenter, Paulo Roberto ^b   Langeloh, Augusto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Glyphosate; Herbicide Roundup ; Polyoxyethyleneamine; Rats; Skeletal alterations; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENDER; GROWTH RETARDATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TERATOGENICITY;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0037473426     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(02)00483-6     Document Type: Article

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