Expression of c-fos and oxidative stress on brain of rats reared on food from mercury-selenium coexisting mining area

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 788-792

  Cheng, Jin Ping ^a   Hu, Wei Xuan ^a   Liu, Xiao Jie ^b   Zheng, Min ^a   Shi, Wei ^c   Wang, Wen Hua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C fos; Mercury polluted food; Oxidative damage; Wanshan mercury mine

Indexed keywords

C-FOS; OXIDATIVE DAMAGE; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

BRAIN; CONTAMINATION; ENZYMES; FREE RADICALS; GENES; MERCURY DEPOSITS; RNA; TOXICITY;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

MERCURY; PROTEIN C FOS; SELENIUM;

BRAIN; CONTAMINATION; ENZYMES; FREE RADICALS; GENES; MERCURY DEPOSITS; RNA; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY;

BRAIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RODENT; SELENIUM; STRESS; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MINING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHINA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MERCURY; MINING; ORYZA SATIVA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELENIUM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

EID: 33749347950     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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