Role of selenium in mercury intoxication in mice

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 388-395

  Agarwal, Rakhi ^a   Behari, Jai Raj ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Catalase; Glutathione; Glutathione peroxidase; Lipid peroxidation; Mercury; Selenium; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; MERCURY; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY POISONING; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34547702650     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.388     Document Type: Article

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