Enzymatic methylation of arsenic compounds. III. The marmoset and tamarin, but not the rhesus monkeys are deficient in methylate inorganic arsenic

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-84

  Zakharyan, Robert A ^a   Wildfang, Eric ^a   Aposhian, H Vasken ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CACODYLIC ACID; METHANEARSONIC ACID; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LIVER; MARMOSET; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MACACA MULATTA; MARMOSETS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR;

EID: 0030247067     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0199     Document Type: Article

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