Pyrimidine and purine salvage deoxyribonucleoside metabolism in hepatic and renal homogenates from rats pretreated with propylthiouracil or L-thyroxine

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-55

  Karbownik, Malgorzata ^b   Modrzejewska, Hanna ^b   Reiter, Russel J ^a   Zasada, Krzysztof ^b   Greger, Janusz ^b   Lewinski, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA salvage enzymes; Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Liver and kidney; Rat

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE KINASE; DEOXYCYTIDINE KINASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY HOMOGENATE; LIVER HOMOGENATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PURINE METABOLISM; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; RAT;

EID: 0033994650     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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