Low antioxidant enzyme gene expression in pancreatic islets compared with various other mouse tissues

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 463-466

  Lenzen, Sigurd ^a   Drinkgern, Jens ^a   Tiedge, Markus ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalase; Free radicals; Gene expression; Glutathione peroxidase; Mouse tissues; Pancreatic islets; SOD

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029984682     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-5849(96)02051-5     Document Type: Article

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