Polymorphisms in the Human Monomethylarsonic Acid (MMAV) Reductase/hGSTO1 Gene and Changes in Urinary Arsenic Profiles

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1507-1513

  Marnell, Lorraine L ^a   Garcia Vargas, Gonzalo G ^b   Chowdhury, Uttam K ^a   Zakharyan, Robert A ^a   Walsh, Bruce ^a   Avram, Mihaela D ^a   Kopplin, Michael J ^a   Cebrián, Mariano E ^c   Silbergeld, Ellen K ^d   Aposhian, H Vasken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARSENIC; CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DRINKING WATER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE; LYSINE; METHANEARSONIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SERINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA ISOLATION; EXON; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; METHYLATION; MEXICO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 9144222018     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx034149a     Document Type: Article

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