Fipronil (active ingredient of acaricide frontline®) acting on the mice thyroid

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-270

  Ferreira, Mateus ^a   De Oliveira, Patrícia Rosa ^a   Denardi, Sandra Eloisi ^a   Bechara, Gervásio Henrique ^a   Mathias, Maria Izabel Camargo ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Histology; Nontarget organisms; Pesticides; Phenyl pyrazolic; Thyroidean tissue

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; COLLOIDS; MAMMALS; PROTEINS;

ACARICIDE; ACTIVE INGREDIENTS; CYTOTOXIC; EXPOSED TO; FIPRONIL; FRONTLINE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; PHENYL-PYRAZOLIC; THYROIDEAN TISSUE;

TISSUE;

EID: 84857343821     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.21053     Document Type: Article

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