Purification and characterization of hepatic glutathione transferases from an insectivorous marsupial, the brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii)

Xenobiotica

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 573-586

  Bolton, R M ^a   Ahokas, J T ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; LIVER; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYTOSOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KINETICS; LIVER; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ALOPIAS; ANIMALIA; ANTECHINUS; ANTECHINUS STUARTII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0030924370     PISSN: 00498254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/004982597240352     Document Type: Article

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