Influence of dietary protein levels on the acute toxicity of methylmercury in mice

Toxicology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Adachi, Tatsumi ^a   Yasutake, Akira ^a   Eto, Komyo ^a   Hirayama, Kimiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Dietary protein; Hepatotoxicity; Methylmercury; Nephrotoxicity; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALIA; ORA;

EID: 0030221231     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-483X(96)03340-9     Document Type: Article

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