Arsenite exposure compromises early embryonic development in the Golden hamster

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-334

  Unis, Dave ^a   Osborne, Cassandra ^b   Diawara, Moussa M ^a  

^a Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

^b WESTERN STATE COLORADO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic toxicity; Blastocyst morphology; Blastomere; DNA fragmentation; Mesocricetus auratus; Preimplantation embryo; Zona escape

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; SUPEROVULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARSENITES; BLASTOCYST; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MESOCRICETUS; PREGNANCY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TERATOGENS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 70349980389     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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