Carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity: An example of free radical-mediated injury

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 279-284

  Williams, Alan T ^a   Burk, Raymond F ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; FREE RADICAL;

ANIMAL MODEL; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE POISONING; FREE RADICALS; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LIVER;

EID: 0025602718     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1040483     Document Type: Article

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