A toxicokinetic model of malathion and its metabolites as a tool to assess human exposure and risk through measurements of urinary biomarkers

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 182-194

  Bouchard, Michèle ^a   Gosselin, Nathalie H ^a   Brunet, Robert C ^a   Samuel, Onil ^b   Dumoulin, Marie Josée ^a   Carrier, Gaétan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dicarboxylic acids; Malathion; Monocarboxylic acids; Phosphoric derivatives; Risk assessment; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; MALATHION; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMIS; FEMALE; GREENHOUSE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METABOLITE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TOXICOKINETICS; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; VOLUNTEER; WORKER;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALATHION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038324384     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfg061     Document Type: Article

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