Alcohol
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 99-108 , February 2001

A subtoxic interactive toxicity study of ethanol and chromium in male Wistar rats

Received 20 December 1999 ,Revised 5 May 2000 ,Accepted 27 October 2000.

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