Placental transfer of melamine and its effects on rat dams and fetuses

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1791-1795

  Jingbin, Wang ^a,c   Ndong, Moussa ^a   Kai, Hisahiro ^b   Matsuno, Koji ^b   Kayama, Fujio ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c Institute of Toxicology of Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Kidney; Melamine; Placental transfer; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MELAMINE; NITROGEN; UREA; URIC ACID;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; RAT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; ORGAN SIZE; PINOCYTOSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRIAZINES;

RATTUS;

EID: 77953535941     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.03.043     Document Type: Article

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