Disposition of inorganic mercury in pregnant rats and their offspring

Toxicology

Volumn 335, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-71

  Oliveira, Cláudia S ^a   Joshee, Lucy ^a   Zalups, Rudolfs K ^a   Pereira, Maria E ^a   Bridges, Christy C ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury; Nephrotoxicity; Placenta; Transport

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS (ANATOMY); KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; MARE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; WISTAR RAT; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; FECES; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PERMEABILITY; PHARMACOKINETICS; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FECES; FEMALE; FETUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PERMEABILITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS, WISTAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84938053521     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: 18793185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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