Sensitivity of platelet microtubules to disassembly by methylmercury

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-70

  Durham, Heather D ^a   Minotti, Sandra ^a   Caporicci, Elizabeth ^a   Chakrabarti, Saroj ^b   Panisset, Jean Claude ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THROMBOCYTE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROTUBULES; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029982330     PISSN: 00984108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/009841096161465     Document Type: Article

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