The larvicide pyriproxyfen blamed during the Zika virus outbreak does not cause microcephaly in zebrafish embryos

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Dzieciolowska, Stefania ^a   Larroque, Anne Laure ^b   Kranjec, Elizabeth Ann ^b   Drapeau, Pierre ^a,c   Samarut, Eric ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIPROXYFEN;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; MICROCEPHALY; NEURAL STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INSECTICIDES; MICROCEPHALY; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PYRIDINES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 85008400989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40067     Document Type: Article

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