The Effects of 6-Month Chronic Low Level Inhalation Exposures to Hydrazine on Animals

Abstract

To compare the effects of repeated 6 hour per day, 5 day per week (industrial type) exposures with continuous exposures of equivalent concentrations and to evaluate the safety factor of the current threshold limit value (TLV), four concentration levels were selected for the 26-week exposure of four animal species. The concentrations selected were: 1.0 ppm and 0.2 ppm for continuous exposures and 5.0 ppm and 1.0 ppm for intermittent daily exposures. The effects of chronic inhalation of hydrazine are dose related regardless of the nature of exposure, i.e., intermittent or continuous. The highest hydrazine dose caused approximately 40% deaths in mice within the first two months of exposure while the TLV dose equivalents caused approximately 5% mortality.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA011865

Entities

People

  • J. D. Macewen

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Biomedical Research
  • Central Nervous System
  • Computer Programs
  • Hydrazines
  • Liver Diseases
  • Molecular Weight
  • Neoplasms
  • Nervous System
  • North Carolina
  • Physiological Effects
  • Physiology
  • Safety Factor
  • Toxicity
  • Virion

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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