Carbon tetrachloride-induced lethality in mouse is prevented by multiple pretreatment with zinc sulfate

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-63

  Yoshioka, Hiroki ^a,b   Usuda, Haruki ^b   Nonogaki, Tsunemasa ^b   Onosaka, Satomi ^a  

^a KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINJO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon tetrachloride; Liver; Metallothionein; Mortality; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; GLYCOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METALLOTHIONEIN II; ZINC SULFATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LD50; METABOLISM; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 84954310535     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.41.55     Document Type: Article

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