Toxicity assessment of the puffer fish Lagocephalus lagocephalus from the Tunisian coast

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 331, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 611-616

  Saoudi, Mongi ^a,b   Abdelmouleh, Abdelwaheb ^b   Kammoun, Wassim ^b   Ellouze, Feriel ^c   Jamoussi, Kamel ^c   El Feki, Abdelfattah ^a  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

^c HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant status; Hepatotoxicity; Lagocephalus lagocephalus; Nephrotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIVER EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANTIOXIDANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FISH; LIPID; MORTALITY; OXIDATION; POISONING; TOXICITY;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; KIDNEY MASS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PUFFER FISH; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUNISIA;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD CELLS; CATALASE; ERYTHROCYTES; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TETRAODONTIFORMES; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TUNISIA;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

LAGOCEPHALUS LAGOCEPHALUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 46149124745     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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