Methylmercury contamination of laboratory animal diets

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1120-1122

  Weiss, Bernard ^a   Stern, Sander ^a   Cernichiari, Elsa ^a   Gelein, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal feed; Laboratory diets; Methylmercury; Rats

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STANDARDIZATION; TOXICITY TESTING; VAPOR;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTROL GROUPS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FISH PRODUCTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25844458316     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7816     Document Type: Article

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