Role of metallothionein on Ag accumulation in hepatic and renal cytosol after Ag injection to rats

Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 22-28

  Saito, Shigeru ^a   Okabe, Masashi ^b   Yoshida, Katsumi ^a   Kurusaki, Masaaki ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; PROTEIN; SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; KIDNEY; LIVER CYTOSOL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT;

EID: 0032967844     PISSN: 09019928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1999.tb01058.x     Document Type: Article

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