Developmental toxicity of indium: Embryotoxicity and teratogenicity in experimental animals

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 145-150

  Nakajima, Mikio ^a   Usami, Makoto ^a   Nakazawa, Ken ^b   Arishima, Kazuyoshi ^c   Yamamoto, Masako ^c  

^a ASAHI KASEI PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryotoxicity; Indium; Mechanisms; Species differences; Teratogenicity; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

INDIUM;

APOPTOSIS; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CELL LOSS; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FETUS MALFORMATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TERATOGENICITY; TOXICOKINETICS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CRICETINAE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETUS; INDIUM; MICE; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RATS; TERATOGENS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 55349109673     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2008.00197.x     Document Type: Review

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