Immortalized hepatocytes as in vitro model systems for toxicity testing: The comparative toxicity of menadione in immortalized cells, primary cultures of hepatocytes and HTC hepatoma cells

Toxicology in Vitro

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 721-727

  Anderson, K ^b   Yin, L ^b   MacDonald, C ^a   Grant, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MENADIONE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEPATOMA CELL; LIVER CELL; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030497669     PISSN: 08872333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-2333(96)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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