Realgar, cinnabar and An-Gong-Niu-Huang Wan are much less chronically nephrotoxic than common arsenicals and mercurials

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-239

  Lu, Yuan Fu ^a,b   Wu, Qin ^a   Yan, Jun Wen ^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

Arsenate; Arsenite; Chronic nephrotoxicity; Cinnabar; HgCl2; MeHg; Realgar

Indexed keywords

AN GONG NIU HUANG WAN; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENITE SODIUM; CHEMOKINE; CREATININE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE ALPHA; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MERCURY SULFIDE; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METHYLMERCURY; NITROGEN; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY WEIGHT; CREATININE; DIET; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY POISONING; MICE; MICROSCOPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SULFIDES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79951634024     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2010.010247     Document Type: Article

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