Developmental toxicity of combined ethylbenzene and methylethylketone administered by inhalation to rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1287-1298

  Saillenfait, A M ^a   Gallissot, F ^a   Sabate J P ^a   Bourges Abella, N ^b   Cadot, R ^c   Morel, G ^a   Lambert, A M ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Inst Univ de Med du Travail   (France)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Ethylbenzene; Methylethylketone; Mixtures

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; ETHYLBENZENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; LETHALITY; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BODY WEIGHT; BUTANONES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL RESORPTION; FETUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; KIDNEY; LITTER SIZE; LIVER; MALE; MANDELIC ACIDS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33745204405     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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