Ethyl tertiary-butyl ether: A toxicological review

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-312

  McGregor, Douglas ^a  

^a Toxicity Evaluation Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; ETBE; Ethyl tertiary Butyl Ether; Gasoline Additives; Metabolism; Mutagens; Neurotoxicity; Oxygenates; Reproductive Toxicity; Rodent Carcinogens; Tertiary Butyl Alcohol

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; CARCINOGEN; ETHER DERIVATIVE; ETHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; GASOLINE; GLUCURONIDE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FORESTOMACH; GENOTOXICITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY ADENOMA; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PAPILLA; KIDNEY TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER MICROSOME; MAST CELL; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTING; UTERUS TUMOR; VAGINA TUMOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; ETHYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER; METHYL ETHERS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

CAVIA; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34247536327     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440601177723     Document Type: Review

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