Alteration of activities of hepatic antioxidant defence enzymes in developing chick embryos after glucocorticoid administration - A factor to produce some adverse effects?

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 655-660

  Lee, Jung Wha ^a   Iwatsuru, Motoharu ^a   Nishigori, Hideo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; LIVER ENZYME; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0031805244     PISSN: 00223573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7158.1998.tb06901.x     Document Type: Article

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