Realgar- and cinnabar-containing An-Gong-Niu-Huang Wan (AGNH) is much less acutely toxic than sodium arsenite and mercuric chloride

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 134-140

  Lu, Yuan Fu ^a,b   Yan, Jun Wen ^a   Wu, Qin ^a   Shi, Jing Zhen ^c   Liu, Jie ^a,d   Shi, Jing Shan ^a,b  

^a ZUNYI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c Guiyang Traditional Medical College   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; AGNH; Arsenite; Cinnabar; Mercuric chloride; Realgar; Tissue metal accumulation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AN GONG NIU HUANG WAN; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ARSENITE SODIUM; CHINESE DRUG; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY SULFIDE; METALLOTHIONEIN I; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; ARSENITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CREATININE; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFIDES;

MUS;

EID: 79251616306     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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