Hepatocytes from metallothionein-I and II knock-out mice are sensitive to cadmium- and tert-butylhydroperoxide-induced cytotoxicity

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 139-145

  Zheng, Hua ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a   Liu, Yaping ^a   Klaassen, Curtis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cultured hepatocytes; Cytotoxicity; Lipid peroxidation; Metallothionein deficient mice; tert Butylhydroperoxide

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030272947     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(96)03770-8     Document Type: Article

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