Effects of glutathione and related compounds on teratogenicity of 5-fluorouracil or cadmium hydrochloride in mice

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-344

  Naya, Masato ^a   Yasuda, Mineo ^b  

^a KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Buthionine sulfoximine; Cadmium, glutathione; Diethylmaleate; N acetyl L cysteine; Phorone; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342645445     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.1997.tb00977.x     Document Type: Review

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