Lack of toxic effect of technical azadirachtin during postnatal development of rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 465-471

  Srivastava, M K ^a   Raizada, R B ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Histopathology; Reproduction study; Technical azadirachtin; Teratology; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

AZADIRACHTIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SKELETON MALFORMATION;

ANIMALS; AZADIRACHTA; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETUS; GLYCERIDES; INSECTICIDES; KIDNEY; LIMONINS; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; TERPENES; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33846587545     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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