Teratogenicity of asbestos in mice

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 363-370

  Fujitani, Tomoko ^a   Hojo, Motoki ^a   Inomata, Akiko ^a   Ogata, Akio ^a   Hirose, Akihiko ^b   Nishimura, Tetsuji ^c   Nakae, Dai ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO HEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amosite; Asbestos; Chrysotile; Crocidolite; Mice; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

AMOSITE; CHRYSOTILE; CROCIDOLITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLEFT FACE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAM (ANIMAL); FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; GENITAL TUBERCLE ABSENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OMPHALOCELE; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TAIL ABSENCE; TERATOGENICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; ASBESTOS, AMOSITE; ASBESTOS, CROCIDOLITE; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MUSCULOSKELETAL ABNORMALITIES; PREGNANCY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TERATOGENESIS;

EID: 84896482223     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.39.363     Document Type: Article

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