Responses of prepubertal female rats to environmental PCBs with high and low dioxin equivalencies

Fundamental and Applied Toxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 282-293

  Li, Mei Hui ^a   Hansen, Larry G ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THYROXINE;

AGONIST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LIVER; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; TRIXIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 26844462359     PISSN: 02720590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/faat.1996.0166     Document Type: Article

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