Stage-dependent abnormalities induced by the fungicide triadimefon in the mouse

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-199

  Di Renzo, Francesca ^a   Broccia, Maria Luisa ^a   Giavini, Erminio ^a   Menegola, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac defects; Cleft palate; Stage specificity; Teratogenesis; Triadimefon

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; TRIADIMEFON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDING; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SKULL MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CLEFT PALATE; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; MICE; PREGNANCY; SKULL; TRIAZOLES;

MUS;

EID: 79952104772     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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