Toxicity of methimazole on femoral bone in suckling rats: Alleviation by selenium

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 187-195

  Ben Amara, Ibtissem ^a   Troudi, Afef ^a   Soudani, Nejla ^a   Guermazi, Fadhel ^b   Zeghal, Najiba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidants enzymes; Bone; Histoarchitecture; Hypothyroidism; Methimazole; Selenium; Suckling rats; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE TARTRATE RESISTANT ISOENZYME; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIOTHYRONINE; MALONALDEHYDE; PHOSPHORUS; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE INJURY; BONE LEVEL; BONE MATURATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMUR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SUCKLING; URINE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; FEMUR; METHIMAZOLE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SELENIUM;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84857034186     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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