The Protective Role of Zinc against Acute Toxicity of Depleted Uranium in Rats

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 402-410

  Hao, Yuhui ^a   Ren, Jiong ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Luo, Shenglin ^a   Ma, Ting ^a   Li, Rong ^a   Su, Yongping ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CREATININE; MALONALDEHYDE; METALLOTHIONEIN; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; URANIUM; ZINC SULFATE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYMURIA; GENE EXPRESSION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CATALASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CREATININE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; KIDNEY; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; METALLOTHIONEIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; URANIUM; ZINC;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869202516     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2012.00910.x     Document Type: Article

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