Toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles in healthy adult mice

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-71

  Esmaeillou, Mohammad ^a   Moharamnejad, Mohammad ^a   Hsankhani, Ramin ^a   Tehrani, Ali Asghar ^b   Maadi, Hamid ^a,c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Kidney; Liver; Lung; Oral gavage; Spleen; Stomach; ZnO nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPEREMIA; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LUNG EDEMA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; KIDNEY; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIGLYCERIDES; UTERUS; ZINC OXIDE;

MUS;

EID: 84871537921     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: 18727077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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