Prospective role of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in attenuating hexavalent chromium-induced functional and cellular damage in rat thyroid

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 349-359

  Irfan Zia Qureshi, ^a   Mahmood, Tariq ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

antioxidant vitamins; ascorbic acid; cellular damage; heavy metal toxicity; hexavalent chromium; histomorphology; thyroid gland; vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; LIOTHYRONINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXPERIMENTATION; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; THYROID CELL; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; VITAMINS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77953999168     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710371109     Document Type: Article

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