Effects of oxygen radical scavengers on connexins 32 and 26 expression in primary cultures of adult rat hepatocytes

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 537-544

  Kojima, Takashi ^a   Mitaka, Toshihiro ^a   Mizuguchi, Toru ^a   Mochizuki, Yohichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DIMETHYLTHIOUREA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FORMAZAN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLUCAGON; HEXAMETHYLENEBISACETAMIDE; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; OXYGEN RADICAL; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACETAMIDES; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GAP JUNCTIONS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LIVER; MALE; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; THIOUREA; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0029918609     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.3.537     Document Type: Article

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