Preliminary Screening Study of Reproductive Outcomes after Exposure to Yarrow in the Pregnant Rat

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 416-420

  Boswell Ruys, Claire L ^a   Ritchie, Helen E ^a   Brown Woodman, Patricia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Rat; Yarrow

Indexed keywords

ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM EXTRACT; ALCOHOL; HERBACEOUS AGENT; WATER;

ACHILLEA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TERATOGENICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ACHILLEA; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; TERATOGENS;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM;

EID: 1242269721     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.10038     Document Type: Article

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