Effects of Icon®, a pyrethroid insecticide on early pregnancy of rats

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 523-533

  Ratnasooriya, W D ^a   Ratnayake, S S K ^a   Jayatunga, Y N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Icon ; Insecticides; Lambda cyhalothrin; Pre implantation loss; Pregnancy outcome; Pyrethroids; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CYHALOTHRIN; PROGESTERONE; PYRETHROID; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS DEATH; LIVER TOXICITY; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RIGHTING REFLEX; SEDATION; SRI LANKA; STRESS; ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NITRILES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PYRETHRINS; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0344035291     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0960327103ht381oa     Document Type: Article

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