Dimethylarsinic acid treatment alters six different rat biochemical parameters: Relevance to arsenic carcinogenesis

Teratogenesis Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 71-84

  Brown, Janice L ^a   Kitchin, Kirk T ^a,b   George, Michael ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenate; Carcinogenesis; Dimethylarsinic acid; DNA damage; Heme oxygenase; Monomethylarsonic acid; Ornithine decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

ARSENATE SODIUM; ARSENIC; CACODYLIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450; GLUTATHIONE; HEME OXYGENASE; METHANEARSONIC ACID; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ARSENATES; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; CACODYLIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HERBICIDES; LIVER; LUNG; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030813934     PISSN: 02703211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6866(1997)17:2<71::AID-TCM3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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