Effects of an environmentally relevant polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mixture on embryonic survival and cardiac development in the domestic chicken

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1325-1331

  Carro, Tiffany ^a   Dean, Karen ^a   Ottinger, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Ecotoxicology; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; DOSE-DEPENDENT MANNER; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL MIXTURES; TOXIC EQUIVALENTS TEQ;

ANIMALS; HEART; MIXTURES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ABNORMALITY; AVIFAUNA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FITNESS; HATCHING; MORTALITY; PCB; POULTRY; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAM PROCEDURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HEART; NEW YORK; OVUM; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; RIVERS;

HUDSON RIVER; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ACTITIS; AVES; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 84876972815     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2178     Document Type: Article

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