Murine teratology of fluconazole: Evaluation of developmental phase specificity and dose dependence

Pediatric Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 94-99

  Tiboni, Gian Mario ^a   Giampietro, Franca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; INCUS; MIDDLE EAR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TERATOGENESIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ALCIAN BLUE; ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CARTILAGE; CLEFT PALATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; FORELIMB; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; TERATOGENS; TERATOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22044438063     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000166754.24957.73     Document Type: Article

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