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Response of young rats to repeated oral administration of technical hexachlorocyclohexane
T S Dikshith1, M K Srivastava, R B Raizada
1Pesticide Toxicology Laboratory, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India.
Veterinary and Human Toxicology
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
Male and Female young rats given daily po doses of technical hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) (5 or 25 mg/kg) for 90 d showed male rats more susceptible to HCH than female. Percent mortality and enzymatic changes were more pronounced in the male rat than in the female. The accumulation of residues in the vital organs of male rat was relatively more than that of the female rat.