Effects of high nitrate intake in rats

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-56

  Ogur, Recai ^a   Hasde, Metin ^a   Korkmaz, Ahmet ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

nitrate; osmotic fragility; water pollution

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC FRAGILITY; RAT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WATER POLLUTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033927711     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2000.11.1.47     Document Type: Article

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