Health assessment of gasoline and fuel oxygenate vapors: Developmental toxicity in rats

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages S69-S79

  Roberts, Linda G ^a   Gray, Thomas M ^b   Trimmer, Gary W ^c   Parker, Robert M ^d   Murray, F Jay ^e   Schreiner, Ceinwen A ^f   Clark, Charles R ^g  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d Huntingdon Life Sciences New Jersey   (United States)

^e Murray and Associates   (United States)

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

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Diisopropyl ether (DIPE); Ethanol (EtOH); Ethyl t butyl ether (ETBE); Evaporative emissions; Fuel oxygenates; Gasoline vapor condensates; Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE); T Amyl methyl ether (TAME); T Butyl alcohol (TBA)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIISOPROPYL ETHER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; ETHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; FUEL; GASOLINE; TERT AMYL ETHYL ETHER; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AIR POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; VAPOR; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; INHALATION; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

RATTUS;

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

EID: 84908300658     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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