Alterations in intracellular thiol homeo
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Donato Di Monte; David Ross; Giorgio Bellomo; Lena Eklöw; Sten Orrenius
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Article
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1984
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The effects of menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) metabolism on intracellular soluble and protein-bound thiols were investigated in freshly isolated rat hepatocytes. Menadione was found to cause a dose-dependent decrease in intracellular glutathione (GSH) level by three different mechanisms: (a