Metabolic disposition of a monoterpene ketone, piperitenone, in rats: Evidence for the formation of a known toxin, p-cresol

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-80

  Madyastha, K Madhava ^a,b   Gaikwad, Nilesh W ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 HYDROXYPIPERITENONE; 4 HYDROXYPIPERITENONE; 4 MENTHA 1,3,5 TRIENE 3,8 DIOL; 4 MENTHA 1,3,5,8 TETRAEN 3 OL; 5 HYDROXYPIPERITENONE; 6,7 DEHYDROMENTHOFURAN; 7 HYDROXYPIPERITENONE; PARA CRESOL; PIPERITENONE; PULEGONE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG METABOLISM; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER TOXICITY; MAMMAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CRESOLS; MALE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; MONOTERPENES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TERPENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MENTHA;

EID: 0032970002     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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