Weight-of-the-evidence review of acrylonitrile reproductive and developmental toxicity studies Acrylonitrile reproductive and developmental toxicity B. H. Neal et al.

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 589-612

  Neal, Barbara H ^a   Collins, James J ^b   Strother, Dale E ^c   Lamb, James C ^a  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^c ToxSolve LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylonitrile; Derelopment; Reproduction; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; DRINKING WATER;

BIRTH DEFECT; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPOSURE; FETOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTIS DISEASE;

ACRYLONITRILE; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RODENTIA;

EID: 70350508747     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440903052855     Document Type: Review

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