Short-term oral toxicity of pentyl ether, 1,4-diethoxybutane and 1,6-dimethoxyhexane in male rats

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 142-150

  Poon, Raymond ^a   Rigden, Marc ^a   Chu, Ih ^a   Valli, Victor E ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliphatic ethers; Diesel fuel additives; Epididymal effects; Formic acid; Testicular effects; Thymic effects

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIETHOXYBUTANE; 1,6 DIMETHOXYHEXANE; ASCORBIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DIESEL FUEL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; TESTOSTERONE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CELL VACUOLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS WEIGHT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYMUS; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINE LEVEL;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BUTANES; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHERS; ETHYL ETHERS; GASOLINE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEXANES; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1642463865     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfg251     Document Type: Review

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