Colchicine-induced elevation of tissue metallothionein contents is mediated by inflammation-independent serum factor

Toxicology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 201-209

  Itoh, Norio ^a   Kasamatsu, Masaaki ^a   Onosaka, Satomi ^b   Muto, Norio ^a   Tanaka, Keiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Glucocorticoid; Induction; Metallothionein; RU38486; Serum factor

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; HUMORAL ANTIBODY; ISOENZYME; METALLOTHIONEIN; MIFEPRISTONE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GEL FILTRATION; HEART; HEPATOMA CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERUM FACTOR; SPLEEN; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; COLCHICINE; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC;

EID: 0031036492     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(96)03545-7     Document Type: Article

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