Differential prenatal toxicity of one straight-chain and five branched-chain primary alcohols in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 489-500

  Hellwig, J ^a   Jackh R ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ETHYLHEXANOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; OCTANOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TERATOGENICITY;

1-OCTANOL; ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEXANOLS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; OCTANOLS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0343118760     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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