Developmental immunotoxicity in male rats after juvenile exposure to di-n-octyltin dichloride (DOTC)

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-348

  Tonk, Elisa C M ^a,b   Verhoef, Aart ^b   de la Fonteyne, Liset J J ^b   Waalkens Berendsen, Ine D H ^c   Wolterbeek, André P M ^c   van Loveren, Henk ^a,b   Piersma, Aldert H ^b,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benchmark dose approach; Developmental immunotoxicity; Juvenile toxicity; Organotin; Rat

Indexed keywords

DIOCTYLTIN DICHLORIDE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYTOKINES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80755132160     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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