Prooxidant and antioxidant functions of nitric oxide in liver toxicity

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 261-271

  Laskin, Jeffrey D ^a   Heck, Diane E ^b   Gardner, Carol R ^b   Laskin, Debra L ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; ENDOTOXIN; GALACTOSAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; PARACETAMOL; PEROXYNITRITE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CELL PROTECTION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STELLATE CELL; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0035001777     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152308601300185214     Document Type: Review

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