Disruption of brain development in male rats exposed prenatally to 5-bromo-2′ -deoxyuridine

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 312-320

  Kuwagata, Makiko ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Usumi, Kenji ^a   Ono, Hiroshi ^a,b   Nagao, Tetsuji ^b  

^a Safety Testing Laboratory   (United States)

^b HATANO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain development; BrdU; Masculine sexual behavior; Prenatal exposure; Reproduction; SDN POA

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543151181     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2001.tb00841.x     Document Type: Article

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