Co-contamination, but not mammalian cell conversion of melamine to cyanuric acid the likely cause of melamine-cyanurate nephrolithiasis

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 411, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 1830-1831

  Panesar, Nirmal S ^a   Chan, Kam W ^a   Lo, Wai S ^a   Leung, Vincent H K ^a   Ho, Chung S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANURIC ACID; GLUTEN; MELAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL METABOLISM; CELL STRAIN COS7; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; MAMMAL CELL; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; TRIAZINES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956458315     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2010.06.022     Document Type: Letter

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