Elevation of kynurenine metabolites in rat liver and serum: A potential additional mechanism of the alcohol aversive and anti-cancer effects of disulfiram?

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-26

  Badawy, Abdulla A B ^a   Bano, Samina ^b  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYANTHRANILIC ACID; 3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CARBON DISULFIDE; DISULFIRAM; KYNURENINASE; KYNURENINE; KYNURENINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; 3-HYDROXYKYNURENINE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; DRUGS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF ADDICTION; HYDROLASE; KYNURENINE-OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LIVER; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERUM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

3-HYDROXYANTHRANILIC ACID; ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISULFIRAM; HYDROLASES; KYNURENINE; KYNURENINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRANSAMINASES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84960109930     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agv085     Document Type: Article

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