Evaluation of the developmental and reproductive toxicity of methoxychlor using an anuran (Xenopus tropicalis) chronic exposure model

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 443-453

  Fort, Douglas J ^a   Thomas, John H ^a   Rogers, Robert L ^a   Noll, Andra ^a   Spaulding, Clinton D ^a   Guiney, Patrick D ^b   Weeks, John A ^b  

^a FORT ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SC Johnson and Son   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Life cycle assay; Methoxychlor; Reproductive toxicity; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

METHOXYCHLOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FROG; GENITAL MALFORMATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STANDARDIZATION; TESTIS WEIGHT; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; VALIDATION PROCESS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GROWTH; INSECTICIDES; MALE; METHOXYCHLOR; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERM COUNT; TERATOGENS; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 5744224138     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfh230     Document Type: Article

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