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Effect of high arsenic content in drinking water on rat brain

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Title Effect of high arsenic content in drinking water on rat brain
 
Creator Chaudhuri, Aditi Nag
Basu, Srabanti
Chattopadhyay, Sukumar
Gupta, S Das
 
Description 51-54
The permissible limit of arsenic content in drinking water is 0.05
ppm, whereas, in many parts of West Bengal the arsenic level in drinking water
is 0.1 ppm, frequently 0.3 ppm and even 3.0 ppm, though rarely. In order to
assess possible risk to brain function by drinking such water, rats were given
arsenic mixed in drinking water at the above four concentrations for 40 days. There
was increased lipid peroxidation at all doses of arsenic, including the
'permissible limit', decrease in glutathione level,

superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase
activities, indicating the free-radical-mediated degeneration of brain.
 
Date 2012-12-30T20:27:02Z
2012-12-30T20:27:02Z
1999-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15415
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJBB Vol.36(1) [February 1999]