Short-term toxicity of aristolochic acid, aristolochic acid-I and aristolochic acid-II in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1157-1163

  Yeh, Yen Hung ^a   Lee, Ya Ting ^b   Hsieh, Hung Sheng ^c   Hwang, Deng Fwu ^d  

^a TOKO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIENKUO TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accumulative toxicity; Aristolochic acid; Liver and kidney dysfunction; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID I; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID II; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; RAT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; ISOMERISM; KIDNEY; LIVER; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 38649132293     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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