Identification of Methylated Dithioarsenicals in the Urine of Rats Fed with Sodium Arsenite

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1480-1487

  Chen, Baowei ^a,b   Lu, Xiufen ^b   Arnold, Lora L ^c   Cohen, Samuel M ^c   Le, X Chris ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENITE SODIUM; ARSONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CACODYLIC ACID; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHYLARSINE OXIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; MONOMETHYLMONOTHIOARSONIC ACID; SODIUM DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; ENTEROHEPATIC CIRCULATION; FEMALE; METAGENOMICS; METAL METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RAT; RETENTION TIME; URINE BIOCHEMISTRY; URINE LEVEL; URINE SAMPLING; ANIMAL; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FISCHER 344 RAT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINE;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; ARSENITES; CACODYLIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84988644002     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00151     Document Type: Article

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