Toxicological effects of in utero and lactational exposure of rats to a mixture of environmental contaminants detected in Canadian Arctic human populations

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-108

  Chu, Ih ^a,d   Bowers, Wayne J ^a   Caldwell, Don ^b   Nakai, Jamie ^a   Wade, Mike G ^a   Yagminas, Al ^a   Li, Nanqin ^a   Moir, David ^a   Abbas, Lubna El ^c   Håkansson, Helen ^c   Gill, Santokh ^b   Mueller, Rudi ^b   Pulido, Olga ^a  

^a Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

^b TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR 1254; CORN OIL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LACTATION; LIVER; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; THYMUS; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; CANADA; CHOLESTEROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; KIDNEY; LACTATION; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINOIDS; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 37249081618     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390701612811     Document Type: Article

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