Methanol, formaldehyde, and sodium formate exposure in rat and mouse conceptuses: A potential role of the visceral yolk sac in embryotoxicity

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 72-82

  Hansen, Jason M ^b   Contreras, Kristi M ^a   Harris, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryotoxicity; Formaldehyde; Formate; Methanol; Mouse; Rat; Visceral yolk sac

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACID; METHANOL;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FOREBRAIN; GROWTH RETARDATION; MICROINJECTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NECROSIS; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERATOGENICITY; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACIDS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; METHANOL; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERATOGENS; YOLK SAC;

EID: 14244266577     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20094     Document Type: Article

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