Identification of enzymes involved in the metabolism of atrazine, terbuthylazine, ametryne, and terbutryne in human liver microsomes

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1037-1044

  Lang, Dieter H ^a   Rettie, Allan E ^a   Böcker, Ronald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NAPHTHOFLAVONE; AMETRYN; ATRAZINE; CYTOCHROME P450; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; FURAFYLLINE; GESTODENE; HERBICIDE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICROSOME ENZYME; QUINIDINE; SULFAPHENAZOLE; SULFOXIDE; TERBUTRYN; TERBUTYLAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEALKYLATION; ENZYME KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER MICROSOME; METABOLITE; OXIDATION; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSOMES, LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0030773392     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx970081l     Document Type: Article

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