Lipid peroxides, glutathione, γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and γ-glutamyltranspeptidase activities in several tissues of rats following water-immersion stress

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 167-169

  Alptekin, Nilgün ^a   Seçkin, Şule ^a   Doǧru Abbasoǧlu, Semra ^a   Yelkenci, Filiz ^a   Koçak Toker, Necla ^a   Toker, Gülçin ^a   Uysal, Müjdat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Lipid peroxidation; Water immersion restraint (WIR) stress; glutamylcysteine synthetase; glutamyltranspeptidase

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTESTINE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 0030239443     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/phrs.1996.0084     Document Type: Article

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