Toxicological evaluation of sodium perfluorohexanoate

Toxicology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 32-44

  Loveless, Scott E ^a   Slezak, Brian ^a   Serex, Tessa ^a   Lewis, Joseph ^a   Mukerji, Pushkor ^a   O'Connor, John C ^a   Donner, E Maria ^a   Frame, Steven R ^a   Korzeniowski, Stephen H ^a   Buck, Robert C ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

90 Day rat oral; Developmental; Genotoxicity; Reproduction; Sodium perfluorohexanoate

Indexed keywords

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; SODIUM PERFLUOROHEXANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVERTANT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FLUOROCARBONS; HEXANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEROXISOMES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS;

EID: 69549105658     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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