Genetic differences in lethality of newborn mice treated in utero with coplanar versus non-coplanar hexabromobiphenyl

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 454-464

  Curran, Christine P ^a   Miller, Kevin A ^a   Dalton, Timothy P ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^b   Miller, Marian L ^a   Shertzer, Howard G ^a   Nebert, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

2,2 ,4,4 ,6,6 (non coplanar) hexabromobiphenyl; 3,3 4,4 ,5,5 , (coplanar) hexabromobiphenyl; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR); Immunotoxicity; In utero toxicity; Newborn lethality

Indexed keywords

2,2',4,4',6,6' HEXABROMOBIPHENYL; 3,3',4,4',5,5' HEXABROMOBIPHENYL; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIOXIN; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOTOXICITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LACTATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PUERPERIUM; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SPLEEN WEIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM; TERATOGENICITY; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31144433875     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfj048     Document Type: Article

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