Developmental toxicity NOAEL and postnatal recovery in rats fed boric acid during gestation

Fundamental and Applied Toxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-193

  Price, Catherine J ^a   Strong, Philip L ^b   Marr, Melissa C ^a   Myers, Christina B ^a   Murray, F J ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Rio Tinto Group   (United States)

^c Murray and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY MASS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RAT; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85033049722     PISSN: 02720590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/faat.1996.0121     Document Type: Article

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