Gap Junction Dysfunction Reduces Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity with Impact on Apoptotic Signaling and Connexin 43 Protein Induction in Rat

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 280-286

  Naiki Ito, Aya ^a   Asamoto, Makoto ^a   Naiki, Taku ^a   Ogawa, Kumiko ^a   Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Sato, Shinya ^a   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis cell death; Liver; Rat pathology; Transgenic animals

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; PARACETAMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GAP JUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC RAT; WILD TYPE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77952539714     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623309357951     Document Type: Article

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