Decrease in hepatic drug-metabolizing enzyme activities after removal of rats from pine bedding

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-302

  Davey, Andrew Keith ^a   Fawcett, John Paul ^a   Lee, Soo Eng ^a   Chan, Kwok Kay ^a   Schofield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL; DRUG METABOLIZING ENZYME; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HALF LIFE TIME; HYDROXYLATION; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINE; RAT; WOOD;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; PINUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; WOOD;

EID: 0042318755     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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