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Silicon in Uraemic Rats

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Nephrotoxicity

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Silicon is one of essential trace elements for normal growth, bone formation and development in rats (1) and also plays an important role in other vital processes in animals (2). Silicon is found in brain, liver, lung, kidney (especially in mitochondria) , and in bone, blood and urine.

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  1. Utano National Hospital, 8 Ondoyama-cho, Ukyoku, Kyoto-city, 616, Japan

    Shinichi Hosokawa, Mayiml Morinaga & Hiroshi Nishitani

  2. Kyoto University Hospital, 8 Ondoyama-cho, Ukyoku, Kyoto-city, 616, Japan

    Osamu Yoshida

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  1. The Robens Institute of Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    P. H. Bach

  2. ICI Central Toxicology Laboratory, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK

    E. A. Lock

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Hosokawa, S., Morinaga, M., Nishitani, H., Yoshida, O. (1989). Silicon in Uraemic Rats. In: Bach, P.H., Lock, E.A. (eds) Nephrotoxicity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2040-2_96

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