Fluoride plus aluminum: Useful tools in laboratory investigations, but messengers of false information

Physiological Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 557-564

  Strunecká, Anna ^a   Strunecky O ^b   Patocka J ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Hydrobiology ^*  (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF TOXICOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aluminofluoride complexes; Aluminum; Fluoride; G protein; Second messenger

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; FLUORIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COVALENT BOND; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SECOND MESSENGER; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALUMINUM; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FLUORIDES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; PHOSPHATES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036975492     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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