Nephrotoxicity of mercuric chloride, methylmercury and cinnabar-containing Zhu-Sha-An-Shen-Wan in rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 194-200

  Shi, Jing Zhen ^a   Kang, Feng ^a   Wu, Qin ^b   Lu, Yuan Fu ^b   Liu, Jie ^b,c   Kang, Y James ^d,e  

^a Guiyang Traditional Medical College   (China)

^b ZUNYI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic exposure; Cinnabar; Mercuric chloride; Methylmercury; Nephrotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CREATININE; KIDNEY INJURY MOLECULE 1; MATRILYSIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY SULFIDE; METHYLMERCURY; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA PRIMERS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GENE EXPRESSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY POISONING; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78651072124     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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