Toxicity and bioaccumulation of nickel sulfate in sprague-dawley rats following 13 weeks of subchronic exposure

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 379-401

  Obone, Élisabeth ^a   Chakrabarti, Saroj K ^a   Bai, Chengjiang ^a   Malick, M Anwar ^a   Lamontagne, Lucie ^b   Subramanian, Kunnath S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CELL DNA; DRINKING WATER; GLOBULIN; NICKEL SULFATE; PLASMA PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TESTIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA DAMAGE; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NICKEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032768221     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/009841099157593     Document Type: Article

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