The role of oxalate in star fruit neurotoxicity of five-sixths nephrectomized rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1764-1769

  Fang, Hua Chang ^a,b   Chen, Chien Liang ^a,b   Lee, Po Tsang ^a,b   Hsu, Chih Yang ^a   Tseng, Ching Jiunn ^a   Lu, Pei Jung ^a   Lai, Shung Lon ^c   Chung, Hsiao Min ^a,b   Chou, Kang Ju ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Neurotoxicity; Oxalate; Renal failure; Star fruit

Indexed keywords

GLUCONATE CALCIUM; OXALIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOOD COMPOSITION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FRUIT; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NEUROTOXINS; OXALATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 34547121212     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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