Effects of antimony on rats following 90-day exposure via drinking water

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-35

  Poon, R ^a,b   Chu, I ^a   Lecavalier, P ^a   Valli, V E ^c   Foster, W ^a   Gupta, S ^a   Thomas, B ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimony; Drinking water; Erythrocytes; No observed adverse effect level (NOAEL); Spleen; Subchronic toxicity; Tissue levels

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ANTIMONY TARTRATE; DRINKING WATER; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG TOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPLEEN INJURY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031975120     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)80120-2     Document Type: Article

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