Subacute toxicity study and germanium tissue accumulation of three germanium compounds, germanium dioxide (GeO2), propagermanium (PPG), tetra (2-carboxy-2-aminoethylmercapto)germanium (TCG), in rats

Pharmacometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Nakai, Shuzo ^a   Chittrakarn, Somsmorn ^b   Togashi, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

(rat); Germanium; Tissue accumulation; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBOXYETHYLGERMANIUM SESQUIOXIDE; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM DERIVATIVE; GERMANIUM DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROGEN; TETRA(2 CARBOXY 2 AMINOETHYLMERCAPTO)GERMANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT; TOXICITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0031738902     PISSN: 03008533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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