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| | METHYL CHLORIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Methyl chloride is metabolized in mammals either by conjuga tion with glutathione or, to a lesser extent, through oxi dation by cytochrome P-450; the glutathione pathway yields methanethiol, and both pathways yield formalde hyde and formate. |
 | | C-labelled methyl chloride by inhalation, radioactivity was found to the largest extent in the liver, kidneys, and testes and to a smaller extent in the brain and lungs (Redford-Ellis and Gowenlock, 1971; Kornbrust et al., 1982; Landry et al., 1983). |
 | | Lesions that were induced by exposure to methyl chloride alone were epididymal sperm granulomas, degeneration of cere bellar granule cells, necrosis of renal proximal tubules, cloudy swelling of hepatocytes, and vacuolization of cell cytoplasm in the outer region of zona fasciculata in the adrenal glands. |
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