Clinical pharmacology and toxicology of dichloroacetate

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 4, 1998, Pages 989-994

  Stacpoole, Peter W ^a,c   Henderson, George N ^a   Yan, Zimeng ^a   James, Margaret O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Dichloroacetate; Drug metabolism; Glyoxylate; Neuropathy; Oxalate; Pyruvate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROACETIC ACID; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; GLYCOLIC ACID; GLYOXYLIC ACID; GROUND WATER; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LACTIC ACID; OXALIC ACID; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL METABOLISM; CHLORINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031657390     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106s4989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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