Health assessment of gasoline and fuel oxygenate vapors: Reproductive toxicity assessment

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages S48-S57

  Gray, Thomas M ^a   Steup, David ^b   Roberts, Linda G ^c   O'Callaghan, James P ^d   Hoffman, Gary ^e   Schreiner, Ceinwen A ^f   Clark, Charles R ^g  

^a AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHELL OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^e Huntingdon Life Sciences New Jersey   (United States)

^f C and C Consulting in Toxicology   (United States)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diisopropyl ether (DIPE); Ethanol (EtOH); Ethyl tert butyl ether (ETBE); Fuel oxygenates; Gasoline vapor condensates; Glial fibrillary acid protein; Methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE); Reproductive toxicity; T Amyl methyl ether (TAME); T Butyl alcohol (TBA)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIISOPROPYL ETHER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; ETHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; FUEL; GASOLINE; GASOLINE VAPOR CONDENSATE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYDROCARBON; METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER; TERT AMYL METHYL ETHER; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AIR POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY MASS; LACTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MATING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TOXICITY TESTING; VAPOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; INHALATION; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASOLINE; INHALATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84908266594     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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