A 90 days oral toxicity of imidacloprid in female rats: Morphological, biochemical and histopathological evaluations

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1185-1190

  Bhardwaj, Shipra ^a   Srivastava, M K ^a   Kapoor, Upasana ^a   Srivastava, L P ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

90 days oral toxicity; Female rats; Imidacloprid; No observed effect level (NOEL)

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; IMIDACLOPRID; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADRENAL GLAND; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORAL TOXICITY; RAT; TOXICITY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77951623725     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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