Pharmacokinetics of radiolabeled tungsten (188W) in male Sprague-Dawley rats following acute sodium tungstate inhalation

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-76

  Radcliffe, Pheona M ^a   Leavens, Teresa L ^b   Wagner, Dean J ^c   Olabisi, Ayodele O ^c   Struve, Melanie F ^b   Wong, Brian A ^d   Tewksbury, Earl ^d   Chapman, Gail D ^c   Dorman, David C ^b  

^a Technology Center   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhalation; Kinetics; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; SODIUM TUNGSTATE 188; TUNGSTATE SODIUM; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMUR; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HALF LIFE TIME; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TOXICOKINETICS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOISOTOPES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 73349112563     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08958370902913237     Document Type: Article

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