Effect of oral exposure to fenitrothion and 3-methyl-4-nitrophenol on splenic cell populations and histopathological alterations in spleen in Wistar rats

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 665-674

  Li, Qing ^a   Kobayashi, Maiko ^a   Inagaki, Hirofumi ^a   Hirata, Yukiyo ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a   Ishizaki, Masamichi ^a   Okamura, Ai ^b   Wang, Dong ^b   Nakajima, Tamie ^b   Kamijima, Michihiro ^c   Kawada, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 methyl 4 nitrophenol (MNP); B cells; fenitrothion (FNT); histopathological alterations; NK; splenocytes; T cells

Indexed keywords

3 METHYL 4 NITROPHENOL; FENITROTHION; NITROPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BODY WEIGHT; CRESOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FENITROTHION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTES; INSECTICIDES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79959748513     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327110377525     Document Type: Article

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