Chronic fluoride exposure does not cause detrimental, extraskeletal effects in nutritionally deficient rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1392-1400

  Dunipace, Ann J ^a   Brizendine, Edward J ^b   Wilson, Marie E ^a   Zhang, Wu ^a   Katz, Barry P ^b   Stookey, George K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium deficiency; Fluoride; Malnutrition; Protein deficiency; Rats

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FLUOROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RAT; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0031829239     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/128.8.1392     Document Type: Article

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