N-Acetylcysteine ameliorates lithium-induced renal failure in rats

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-70

  Efrati, Shai ^a   Averbukh, Michael ^a   Berman, Sylvia ^a,c   Feldman, Leonid ^a,c   Dishy, Victor ^a   Kachko, Leonid ^b   Weissgarten, Joshua ^a,c   Golik, Ahuva ^a   Averbukh, Zhan ^a,c  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lithium; N acetylcysteine; Rats; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CREATININE; FLUMIL ANTIDOTO; LITHIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LITHIUM; MALE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13444261482     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh573     Document Type: Article

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