The influence of age and some inducers on UDP-glucuronyltransferase activity

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 305-313

  Plewka, Andrzej ^a   Kamiński, Margin ^a   Plewka, Danuta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

aging; inducers; liver; rats; UDP glucuronyltransferase

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BETA-NAPHTHOFLAVONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME INDUCTION; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MALE; PHENOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0342617629     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(96)00124-6     Document Type: Article

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