The effects of dietary boron compounds in supplemented diet on hormonal activity and some biochemical parameters in rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 255-260

  Kucukkurt, Ismail ^a   Akbel, Erten ^b   Karabag, Funda ^b   Ince, Sinan ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b USAK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

betahydroxybutyric acid; Borax; boric acid; carnitine; leptin; nonesterified fatty acids; thyroxine; triiodothyronine

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BORATE SODIUM; BORIC ACID; CARNITINE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE; BORON; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE ACTION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BORON; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84924919174     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233712469648     Document Type: Article

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