Borax counteracts genotoxicity of aluminum in rat liver

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 775-779

  Turkez, Hasan ^a   Geyikoğlu, Fatime ^b   Tatar, Abdulgani ^b  

^a ERZURUM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aluminum; borax; in vivo; liver; micronucleus assay; rat

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; BORATE SODIUM; LIVER PROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALUMINUM; BORAX; IN VIVO; LIVER; MICRONUCLEUS ASSAY; RAT;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BORATES; CHLORIDES; DNA DAMAGE; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84876529249     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233712442739     Document Type: Article

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