Dietary oral exposure to 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine in the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 381-387

  Gogal Jr , Robert M ^a   Johnson, Mark S ^b   Larsen, Calvert T ^a   Prater, Mary R ^a   Duncan, Robert B ^a   Ward, Daniel L ^a   Lee, Robyn B ^b   Salice, Christopher J ^b   Jortner, Bernard ^a   Holladay, Steven D ^a  

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

^b U S ARMY CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Bobwhite; Immunity; Royal demolition explosive; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ACUTE LETHAL DOSE (ALD);

EXPLOSIVES;

1,3,5 TRINITRO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIRD; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; EXPLOSIVE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT GAIN; WILDLIFE;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; COLINUS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SPLEEN; TOXICITY TESTS; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; MAMMALIA; PHASIANIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12244300943     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<0381:DOETTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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