Potential role of regucalcin as a specific biochemical marker of chronic liver injury with carbon tetrachloride administration in rats

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 61-67

  Yamaguchi, Masayoshi ^a   Tsurusaki, Yoshinori ^a   Misawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Inagaki, Shyuichiroch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Diagnostic marker; Hepatitis; Liver injury; Regucalcin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CALCIUM ION; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CORN OIL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; REGUCALCIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL SULFOTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; RGN PROTEIN, RAT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SULFOTRANSFERASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL LEVEL; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXIC HEPATITIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 0036893319     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020822610085     Document Type: Article

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