Efficacy of glutathione in ameliorating sulfur mustard analog-induced toxicity in cultured skin epidermal cells and in SKH-1 mouse skin in vivo

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 450-459

  Tewari Singh, Neera ^a   Agarwal, Chapla ^a   Huang, Jie ^b   Day, Brian J ^b   White, Carl W ^b   Agarwal, Rajesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYL 2 CHLOROETHYL SULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE; MUSTARD GAS DERIVATIVE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INJURY;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CELL CYCLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DERMATITIS; DNA; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; MUSTARD GAS; PEROXIDASE; SKIN; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 78751506953     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.110.173708     Document Type: Article

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