Metyrapone reductase purified partially from liver microsomes of male rats: The enzyme differs from acetohexamide reductase

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 219-226

  Imamura, Yorishige ^a   Murata, Hideyuki ^a   Otagiri, Masaki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOHEXAMIDE; BARBITAL; CARBONYL REDUCTASE; DRUG METABOLITE; HALOPERIDOL; KETONE; METYRAPONE; MICROSOME ENZYME; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETOHEXAMIDE; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; METYRAPONE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

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