Expression and inducibility of the human bilirubin UDP- glucuronosyltransferase UGT1A1 in liver and cultured primary hepatocytes: Evidence for both genetic and environmental influences

Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 476-484

  Ritter, Joseph K ^a   Kessler, Fay K ^a   Thompson, Melissa T ^a   Grove, Andrew D ^a   Auyeung, Diana J ^a   Fisher, Robert A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; OLTIPRAZ; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; LIVER; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032791711     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300205     Document Type: Article

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