Parachlorella beyerinckii accelerates lead excretion in mice

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 551-556

  Uchikawa, Takuya ^a   Ueno, Takeyuki ^a   Hasegawa, Takashi ^a   Maruyama, Isao ^a   Kumamoto, Shoichiro ^a   Ando, Yotaro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

absorption; Chlorella vulgaris; inhibition; lead; Parachlorella beyerinckii

Indexed keywords

CHLORELLA EXTRACT; LEAD ACETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LIVER LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADSORPTION; ANIMALS; CHLORELLA; FECES; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LEAD; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

ANIMALIA; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; MUS; PARACHLORELLA BEIJERINCKII;

EID: 70350029644     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233709346759     Document Type: Article

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