Effects of methyl mercury on the activity and gene expression of mouse Langerhans islets and glucose metabolism

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-128

  Maqbool, Faheem ^a,b   Bahadar, Haji ^c   Niaz, Kamal ^a,b   Baeeri, Maryam ^a   Rahimifard, Mahban ^a   Navaei Nigjeh, Mona ^a   Ghasemi Niri, Seyedeh Farnaz ^a   Abdollahi, Mohammad ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Food contaminant; Gene expression; Glucose homeostasis; Insulin resistance; Mercury; Oxidative stress; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; INSULIN; METHYLMERCURY; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TAP WATER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GCK GENE; GDH GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUT2 GENE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS ISLET; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXICITY TESTING; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CASPASE 3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84968764154     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.05.005     Document Type: Article

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