Tissue-Specific and Dose-Related Accumulation of Arsenic in Mouse Offspring Following Maternal Consumption of Arsenic-Contaminated Water

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 326-332

  Markowski, Vincent P ^a,b   Currie, Douglas ^b   Reeve, Elizabeth A ^b   Thompson, Douglas ^b   Wise Sr, John P ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; DRINKING WATER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRTH; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; BREAST MILK; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FOOD INTAKE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79954499443     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2010.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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