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In "Developmental Toxicity of a Commercial Herbicide herbicide (hr`bəsīd'), chemical compound that kills plants or inhibits their normal growth. A herbicide in a particular formulation and application can be described as selective or nonselective.  Mixture in Mice: I. Effects on Embryo Implantation implantation /im·plan·ta·tion/ (im?plan-ta´shun)
1. attachment of the blastocyst to the epithelial lining of the uterus, its penetration through the epithelium, and, in humans, its embedding in the stratum compactum of the
 and Litter Size" [Environ Health Perspect 110:1081-1085 (2002)], by Cavieres et al., some values in Tables 2 and 3 were incorrect.

In Table 3, the correct weight (mean [+ or -] SD) for control/winter is 1.43 [+ or -] 0.15 (n = 17).

Table 2 is shown below; values that have been corrected from the original table are shown in boldface See boldface font. .

The authors regret the errors.
Table 2. Litter size in females exposed to a commercial mixture of
2,4-D, mecoprop, and dicamba during pregnancy in different seasons
[mean [+ or -] SD (n)].

Dose                      Fall                        Winter

Control         11.4 [+ or -] 1.3 (18)       10.8 [+ or -] 1.1 (17)
Very low                   ND                 9.2 [+ or -] 1.8 (19) **
Low             10.5 [+ or -] 1.5 (14)        9.4 [+ or -] 1.4 (11)
Intermediate     9.4 [+ or -] 1.5 (18)        8.9 [+ or -] 2.0 (14) *
High             8.8 [+ or -] 1.6 (18) *      9.9 [+ or -] 1.9 (13)

Dose                     Spring                       Summer

Control         11.0 [+ or -] 1.5 (15)       10.6 [+ or -] 1.5 (12)
Very low                   ND                 8.2 [+ or -] 2.2 (12) **
Low              9.4 [+ or -] 1.9 (18) **     7.7 [+ or -] 2.3 (15) *
Intermediate     9.5 [+ or -] 1.9 (17)        9.3 [+ or -] 1.6 (12)
High            10.3 [+ or -] 1.9 (19)        9.9 [+ or -] 1.0 (13)

ND, not determined. Pregnant mice were exposed during organogenesis
(GD5-15) except for the spring experiment, when they were exposed
during preimplantation and organogenesis (GD0-15).

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01, ANCOVA, Bonferroni.


In Figure 4B of "Diminished Experience-Dependent Neuroanatomical neu·ro·a·nat·o·my  
n. pl. neu·ro·a·nat·o·mies
1. The branch of anatomy that deals with the nervous system.

2. The neural structure of a body part or organ: the neuroanatomy of the eye.
 Plasticity: Evidence for an Improved Biomarker of Subtle Neurotoxic neurotoxic

pertaining to or emanating from a neurotoxin.


neurotoxic state
a case of poisoning by a neurotoxin.


neurotoxic adjective
 Damage to the Developing Rat Brain" by Wallace et al. [Environ Health Perspect 111:1294-1298 (2003)], the x-axis labels were incorrect. The corrected figure is shown below.

EHP EHP
abbr.
1. effective horsepower

2. electric horsepower
 regrets the error.

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The September Headliners article "Sperm Abnormalities in Men Exposed to PCBs and PCDFs" [Environ Health Perspect 111:A639 (2003)] incorrectly suggests that Yucheng is a geographic name when in fact it is the name (meaning "oil disease") for the infamous 1979 contaminated contaminated,
v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material.
2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials.
3. an infective surface or object.
 cooking oil incident. EHP regrets the error.
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