Clinicopathological studies on vitamin D3 toxicity and therapeutic evaluation of Aloe vera in rats

Toxicology International

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-43

  Chavhan, Sambhaji G ^a   Brar, R S ^a   Banga, H S ^a   Sandhu, H S ^a   Sodhi, S ^a   Gadhave, P D ^a   Kothule, V R ^a   Kammon, A M ^a  

^a GURU ANGAD DEV VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aloe vera; calcification; histopathological lesions; hypercalcemia; vitamin D 3 toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; DRINKING WATER; HEMOGLOBIN; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALOE VERA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; AORTA CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETER; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHOROID PLEXUS ARTERY CALCIFICATION; COLECALCIFEROL TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPNEA; EPISTAXIS; HEART CALCIFICATION; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE CALCIFICATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; LARYNX CALCIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG CALCIFICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; RAT; SPLEEN CALCIFICATION; STOMACH CALCINOSIS; STOMACH MUCOSA; TONGUE CALCIFICATION; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY; TRACHEA CALCIFICATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VAS DEFERENS CALCIFICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALOE VERA; RATTUS;

EID: 79551532774     PISSN: 09716580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6580.75851     Document Type: Article

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