Kinetics of ethylene and ethylene oxide in subcellular fractions of lungs and livers of male B6C3F1 mice and male fischer 344 rats and of human livers

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 384-398

  Li, Qiang ^a,b   Csanády, Gÿrgy András ^a,b   Kessler, Winfried ^a   Klein, Dominik ^a,b   Pankratz, Helmut ^c   Pütz, Christian ^a   Richter, Nadine ^a,b   Filser, Johannes Georg ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Ethylene oxide; Human; Mouse; Rat; Subcellular fractions; Suicide inhibition

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE OXIDE; GLUTATHIONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOSOL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KINETICS; LIVER; LIVER MICROSOME METABOLISM; LUNG; LUNG MICROSOME; MALE; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; CYTOSOL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPOXIDE HYDROLASES; ETHYLENE OXIDE; ETHYLENES; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSOMES, LIVER; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 80053447353     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfr194     Document Type: Article

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