Acute toxicity assessment of choline by inhalation, intraperitoneal and oral routes in Balb/c mice

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-286

  Mehta, Amit Kumar ^a,b   Arora, Naveen ^a   Gaur, Shailendra Nath ^c   Singh, Bhanu Pratap ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Animal model; Asthma; Choline; Inhalation; Oral gavage; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINE; CREATININE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; UREA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TOXICITY TESTING; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CHOLINE; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 67650224033     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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