Effect of intra-tracheal instillation and inhalation of silicon dioxide on some biochemical variables in broncho-alveolar lavage fluid and lung histopathology in rats

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 459-475

  Prasad, P ^a   Lall, S B ^a   Mathur, M ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; ELASTASE; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SILICOSIS;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CATALASE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; ORGAN SIZE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PROTEINS; RATS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033870699     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/DCT-100100128     Document Type: Article

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