Treatment of chronic cadmium nephrotoxicity by N-acetyl cysteine

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 137-142

  Shaikh, Zahir A ^a   Zaman, Khalequz ^a   Tang, Weifeng ^a   Vu, Thanhtam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; N acetyl cysteine; Nephrotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CADMIUM; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; URINALYSIS;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; CADMIUM POISONING; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; KIDNEY DISEASES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032912823     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00358-0     Document Type: Article

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