Relationships Between Organ Weight and Body/Brain Weight in the Rat: WhaT Is the Best Analytical Endpoint?

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 448-466

  Bailey, Steven A ^a   Zidell, Robert H ^b   Perry, Richard W ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

body weight; brain weight; historical control data; organ weight; Sprague Dawley rats; statistics; toxicology studies

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART WEIGHT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242886624     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230490465874     Document Type: Article

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