The neuroprotective role of boric acid on aluminum chloride-induced neurotoxicity

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 700-710

  Çolak, Suat ^a   Geyikoğlu, Fatime ^a   Keles, Osman Nuri ^b   Türkez, Hasan ^a   Topal, Ahmet ^a   Unal, Bünyami ^b  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

aluminum chloride; Boric acid; brain; histopathology; stereology

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; BORIC ACID;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOMETRY;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BORIC ACIDS; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHLORIDES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80054729463     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710395349     Document Type: Article

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