Glycine accelerates recovery from alcohol-induced liver injury

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1014-1019

  Yin, Ming ^a   Ikejima, Kenichi ^a   Arteel, Gavin E ^a   Seabra, Vitor ^a   Bradford, Blair U ^a   Kono, Hiroshi ^a   Rusyn, Ivan ^a   Thurman, Ronald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE;

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHLORIDES; DIET; ETHANOL; GLYCINE; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KUPFFER CELLS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0032426633     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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