Effect of ethanol pretreatment on mercury distribution in organs of fetal guinea pigs following in utero exposure to mercury vapor

Toxicology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Yoshida, Minoru ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^b   Sumi, Yawara ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elemental mercury; Ethanol; Fetal liver; Guinea pig; Mercury; Mercury vapor; Metallothionein

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GUINEA PIG; HEART; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATALASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETUS; GUINEA PIGS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030903401     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(96)03611-6     Document Type: Article

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