Role of vitamin E in preventing acute mercury toxicity in rat

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-78

  Agarwal, Rakhi ^a   Goel, Sudhir K ^a   Chandra, Ramesh ^a   Behari, Jai Raj ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mercury toxicity; Oxidative stress; Rat; Vitamin E treatment

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CATALASE; CREATININE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MERCURY; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METALLOTHIONEIN II; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

RATTUS;

EID: 72449175159     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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