Why amphibians are more sensitive than mammals to xenobiotics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Quaranta, Angelo ^a   Bellantuono, Vito ^a   Cassano, Giuseppe ^a   Lippe, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; GLYPHOSATE; MANNITOL; PARAQUAT; PHENAZONE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EAR; ENVIRONMENT; FROG; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; RANA ESCULENTA; SUIDAE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ANTIPYRINE; ATRAZINE; EAR; ENVIRONMENT; GLYCINE; MAMMALS; MANNITOL; PARAQUAT; RANA ESCULENTA; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 70449433035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007699     Document Type: Article

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