An overview of the relationship between oxidative stress and mercury and arsenic

Toxic Substance Mechanisms

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 151-181

  Zaman, Khalequz ^a,b   Pardini, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; MERCURY;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA REPAIR; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029788166     PISSN: 10769188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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