Biochemical and histopathological effects of subchronic oral exposure of rats to a mixture of five toxic elements

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-175

  Zhu, Haiyan ^a,c   Jia, Yijing ^a,b   Cao, Hongbin ^a,b   Meng, Fanyun ^a,b   Liu, Xinxin ^a,b  

^a Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Combined subchronic toxicity; Hematopoietic variables; Histopathological change; Serum biochemical profile; Toxic elements

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CREATININE; GLOBULIN; LEAD; MERCURY; DRUG MIXTURE; HEAVY METAL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; UREA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LD 50; LIVER CELL; LIVER NECROSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY DISEASE; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM; SPERMATOCYTE; UTERUS DISEASE; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG MIXTURE; ORGAN SIZE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE; LIVER; LUNG; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TESTIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC;

RATTUS;

EID: 84903883867     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

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