Cyanide-metabolizing enzyme rhodanese in human tissues: Comparison with domestic animals

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-51

  Aminlari, Mahmoud ^a   Malekhusseini, Ali ^b   Akrami, Fatemeh ^a   Ebrahimnejad, Hadi ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cyanide detoxification; Human; Kidney; Liver; Rhodanese

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; LIQUID NITROGEN; THIOCYANATE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; TISSUE EXTRACT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BRAIN TISSUE; CAMEL; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDE POISONING; DETOXIFICATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GOAT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; STOMACH MUCOSA; SWINE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846437064     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-006-0647-x     Document Type: Article

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