Hepatotoxic agent thioacetamide induces biochemical and histological alterations in rat small intestine

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1715-1723

  Ortega, Maria Angeles ^a   Torres, Maria Isabel ^a   Fernández, Maria Isabel ^a   Rios, Antonio ^a   Sánchez Pozo, Antonio ^a   Gil, Angel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brush border enzymes; Cirrhosis; Histology; Small intestine; Thioacetamide

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; DNA; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; LACTASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; RNA; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; ILEUM; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; JEJUNUM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; ILEUM; INTESTINE, SMALL; JEJUNUM; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOACETAMIDE;

EID: 0030831956     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018817600238     Document Type: Article

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