Evaluation of effects of prenatal exposure to the cyanide and thiocyanate in wistar rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 568-577

  de Sousa, Altamir Benedito ^a   Maiorka, Paulo César ^a   Gonçalves, Ivair Donizete ^a   de Sá, Lílian Rose Marques ^a   Górniak, Silvana Lima ^a  

^a Section of Domestic and Wild Animals Anatomy   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Developmental toxicity test; Rat; Thiocyanate

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; THIOCYANATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICITY TESTING; WEANING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; KIDNEY; LIVER; PANCREAS; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOCYANATES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34248563175     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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