Arsenite alters heme synthesis in long-term cultures of adult rat hepatocytes

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-289

  Aguilar González, María Guadalupe ^a   Hernández, Ascención ^b   López, María Lourdes ^b   Mendoza Figueroa, Tomás ^b   Albores, Arnulfo ^a  

^a Secc de Toxicol Ambiental   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Arsenite; Heme synthesis; Hepatocytes; Long term cultures; Porphyrins

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; COPROPORPHYRIN; HEME; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; PROTOPORPHYRIN; UROPORPHYRIN; UROPORPHYRINOGEN DECARBOXYLASE; UROPORPHYRINOGEN III SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEME SYNTHESIS; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER CELL; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANIMALS; ARSENITES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME INDUCTION; HEME; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TERATOGENS; TIME FACTORS; UROPORPHYRINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345712399     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/49.2.281     Document Type: Article

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