Toxicity of Bromkal 70-5DE, a technical mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers, following 28 d of oral exposure in rats and impact of analysed impurities

Chemosphere

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-143

  Öberg, Mattias ^a   Westerholm, Emma ^a   Fattore, Elena ^b   Stern, Natalia ^a   Hanberg, Annika ^a   Haglund, Peter ^c   Wiberg, Karin ^c   Bergendorff, Anders ^a   Håkansson, Helen ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flame retardant; Penta BDE; Polybrominated dibenzofuran; Polybrominated diphenyl ether; Sprague Dawley rat

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MIXTURES; RATS; TOXICITY;

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIBENZOFURANS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; PENTA-BDE; POLYBROMINATED DIBENZOFURANS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; DIBENZODIOXIN DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; PROTEIN;

DIBENZOFURAN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PBDE; RODENT; TOXICITY;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77953125125     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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