Metabolism of methyl tert-butyl ether and other gasoline ethers in mouse liver microsomes lacking cytochrome P450 2E1

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-88

  Hong, Jun Yan ^a   Wang, Yong Yu ^a   Bondoc, Flordeliza Y ^a   Yang, Chung S ^a   Gonzalez, Frank J ^b   Pan, Zhenyi ^a   Cokonis, Clara Dina ^a   Hu, Wen Yu ^a   Bao, Ziping ^a  

^a Department of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450 2E1; Gasoline ethers; Knock out mice; Metabolism; Methyl tert butyl ether

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GASOLINE; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

AGING; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2E1; ETHYL ETHERS; FEMALE; GASOLINE; METHYL ETHERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSOMES, LIVER;

EID: 0032997612     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00389-0     Document Type: Article

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