Potential renal and hepatic toxicity of diphenyl diselenide, diphenyl ditelluride and Ebselen for rats and mice

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-16

  Meotti, F C ^a   Borges, V C ^a   Zeni, G ^a   Rocha, J B T ^a   Nogueira, C W ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ebselen; Selenium; Tellurium; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHALCOGEN; DIPHENYLDISELENIDE; DIPHENYLDITELLURIDE; EBSELEN; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; SELENIDE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; LD 50; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 84984578824     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00090-0     Document Type: Article

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