Determination of urinary phenolic metabolites from rats treated with 1,2,3- and 1,3,5- trimethylbenzenes

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-339

  Tsujimoto, Yuji ^a   Warashina, Munehiro ^a   Nam, Vu Duc ^b   Noda, Tsutomu ^a   Shimizu, Mitsuru ^a   Yamaguchi, Yukihiko ^a   Moriwaki, Hiroshi ^a   Morimoto, Tsumoru ^c   Kakiuchi, Kiyomi ^c   Maeda, Yasuaki ^d   Tanaka, Masanobu ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phenolic metabolite; Ring oxidation; Trimethylbenzene

Indexed keywords

1,2,3 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,3,5 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; PHENOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RAT; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ANIMALS; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; JAPAN; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25444470299     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13419145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.47.337     Document Type: Article

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