Tissue- and gender-specific mRNA expression of UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) in mice

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-127

  Buckley, David B ^a   Klaassen, Curtis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A1; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A5; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A6; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A7C; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A9; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2A3; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B1; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B34; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B35; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B36; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B37; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B38; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 2B5; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

MURINAE;

EID: 33845929797     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: 1521009X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/dmd.106.012070     Document Type: Article

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