Copper metabolism in the kidney of rats administered copper and copper-metallothionein

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 4 43-4, 1998, Pages

  Kurasaki, Masaaki ^a   Okabe, Masashi ^a   Saito, Shigeru ^a   Suzuki Kurasaki, Mika ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; In situ blotting

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY METABOLISM; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031958413     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1998.274.4.f783     Document Type: Article

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