Dietary Mg and/or K restriction enhances paraquat toxicity in rats

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 450-453

  Minakata, Kayoko ^a   Suzuki, Osamu ^a   Saito, Shin Ichi ^b   Harada, Naoko ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteinase inhibitor; Magnesium deficiency; Paraquat; Potassium deficiency; Rats

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; PARAQUAT; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; MINERAL BALANCE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MALE; PARAQUAT; POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031810744     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002040050526     Document Type: Article

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