Renal toxicity in rats after oral administration of mercury-contaminated boiled whale livers marketed for human consumption

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 412-416

  Endo, Tetsuya ^a   Haraguchi, Koichi ^b   Sakata, Masakatsu ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MERCURY; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

TOXICITY;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCRETION; FECES LEVEL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERUM; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME; WHALE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD HANDLING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URINALYSIS; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; ODONTOCETI;

EID: 0344406987     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-002-2078-2     Document Type: Article

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