Heavy metals nanoparticles in fetal kidney and liver tissues

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 3 E, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 221-226

  Gatti, Antonietta M ^a   Bosco, Paolo ^b   Rivasi, Francesco ^a   Bianca, Sebastiano ^c   Ettore, Giuseppe ^c   Gaetti, Luigi ^d   Montanari, Stefano ^e   Bartoloni, Giovanni ^c   Gazzolo, Diego ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^c GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Mantova Hospital   (Italy)

^e Nanodiagnostics Research Laboratory   (Italy)

^f G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^g C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

FEG ESEM; Fetus; Heavy Metals; Nanoparticles; Neural Tube Defects; NTD; Pregnancy; Spina Bifida

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; BISMUTH; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL; SILICON; TIN; TITANIUM; XENOBIOTIC AGENT; ZINC; NANOPARTICLE;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECTROMETER; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FETUS DEATH; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABORTED FETUS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; METALS, HEAVY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79957852801     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/e236     Document Type: Article

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