Toxic hepatitis in a group of 20 male body-builders taking dietary supplements

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3826-3832

  Timcheh Hariri, Alireza ^a   Balali Mood, Mahdi ^a   Aryan, Ehsan ^b,c   Sadeghi, Mahmood ^a   Riahi Zanjani, Bamdad ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Athletes; Dietary supplements; Hepatitis; Toxic

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CELL TECH; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; T BOMB 2; TESTOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILDING; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRURITUS; TOXIC HEPATITIS; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AMINO ACIDS; CREATINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOPING IN SPORTS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; SPORTS; TESTOSTERONE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 84865470468     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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