Toxic Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Titanium Dioxide Bulk Salt in the Liver and Blood of Male Sprague-Dawley Rats Assessed by Different Assays

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 405-426

  Shakeel, Muhammad ^a   Jabeen, Farhat ^a   Qureshi, Naureen Aziz ^b   Fakhr e Alam, Muhammad ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE WOMEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Histological changes; Lipid peroxidation; Liver function tests; Micronucleus assay; Nanoparticles; Oxidative stress; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOMARKERS; DNA DAMAGE; LIVER; MALE; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84961783404     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-016-0677-4     Document Type: Article

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