Biologic and pharmacologic regulation of mammalian glutathione synthesis

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 922-935

  Griffith, Owen W ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamylcysteine synthetase; Buthionine sulfoximine; Cysteine availability; Feedback inhibition; Free radical; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; HEAVY METAL; INSULIN; PROSTAGLANDIN A2;

CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033231162     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(99)00176-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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