Statistical power in the analyses of brain weight measures in pesticide neurotoxicity testing and the relationship between brain and body weight

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 57, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 235-240

  Weichenthal, Scott ^a   Hancock, Scott ^a   Raffaele, Kathleen ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental neurotoxicity testing; Pesticides; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CONTROL GROUPS; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PESTICIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77953364063     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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