Haloacetonitriles: Metabolism and toxicity

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 198, Issue , 2009, Pages 169-200

  Lipscomb, John C ^a   El Demerdash, Ebtehal ^a   Ahmed, Ahmed E ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE DERIVATIVE; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRODUCTION; STANDARD; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ACETONITRILES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRODUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 61849086765     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09647-6_5     Document Type: Article

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