Butylated hydroxytoluene is a ligand of urinary proteins derived from female mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 443-452

  Kwak, Jae ^a   Josue, Jesusa ^a   Faranda, Adam ^a   Opiekun, Maryanne Curran ^a   Preti, George ^a,b   Osada, Kazumi ^c   Yamazaki, Kunio ^a   Beauchamp, Gary K ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c School of Dentistry Tobetsu   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Major urinary proteins (MUPs); Solid phase microextraction (SPME); Volatile ligands; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

BUTYLCRESOL; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 8; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79957518792     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr015     Document Type: Article

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