Subacute toxic effects of zinc on various tissues and organs of rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-35

  Piao, Fengyuan ^a   Yokoyama, Kazuhito ^a   Ma, Ning ^a   Yamauchi, Toru ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Cytogenetics; Endocrine system; Hematopoietic system; Male reproductive system; Subacute toxicity of Zn; Zinc acetate

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROID HORMONE; ZINC ACETATE; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LITERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BONE MARROW CELL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CYTOGENETICS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTES; GENITALIA, MALE; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; THYROID HORMONES; ZINC;

EID: 0142243364     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00261-3     Document Type: Article

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