Effects of chromium on the resident gut bacteria of rat

Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-218

  Shrivastava, Richa ^a   Kannan, A ^a   Upreti, R K ^a   Chaturvedi, U C ^a,b  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b 201 Annapurna Apartments ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Chromium (VI) reduction; Chromium resistance; Escherichia coli; Gut microflora; Intestinal bacteria; Lactobacillus; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHROMIUM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PREBIOTIC AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CECUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RAT; STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21344440561     PISSN: 15376516     EISSN: 15376524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376520590945630     Document Type: Article

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