The decrease in uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase activity induced by ethanol predisposes rats to the accelerates xenobiotic-triggered porphyria, regardless of hepatic damage

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1273-1283

  Rios de Molina M C ^a   Mazzetti, M B ^a   Galigniana, M ^a   Aldonatti, C ^a   Tomio, J M ^a   San Martin de Viale, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Ethanol; Heme metabolic pathway; Hepatic damage; Hexachlorobenzene; Porphyria cutanea tarda

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; FERROCHELATASE; HEME; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; PORPHOBILINOGEN; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; PORPHYRIN; UROPORPHYRINOGEN DECARBOXYLASE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LIVER INJURY; NONHUMAN; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; RAT; RAT STRAIN; URINARY EXCRETION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0036867610     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2002001100004     Document Type: Article

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