Harmful effects and acute lethal toxicity of intravenous administration of low concentrations of hydrofluoric acid in rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-12

  Mitsui, Go ^a   Dote, Tomotaro ^a   Adachi, Kazuya ^a   Dote, Emi ^a   Fujimoto, Keiichi ^a   Shimbo, Yukari ^a   Fujihara, Michiko ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyasu ^a   Usuda, Kan ^a   Kono, Koichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

hydrofluoric acid; hyperkalemia; hypocalcemia; lethal dose; renal failure

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATININE; FLUORIDE SODIUM; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSORPTION; ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; GLOMERULAR DYSFUNCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHAL DOSE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; RAT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACIDOSIS, RENAL TUBULAR; ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIVER; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

RATTUS;

EID: 34250730800     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233707076420     Document Type: Article

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