Hepatic mitochondrial glutathione deplet
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Akeshi Hirano; Neil Kaplowitz; Hidekazu Tsukamoto; Seiichiro Kamimura; Jose C. F
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Article
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1992
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Long-term ethanol feeding has been shown to selectively reduce hepatic mitochondrial glutathione content by impairing mitochondrial uptake of this thiol. In this study, we assessed the role of this defect in evolution of alcoholic liver disease by examining the mitochondrial glutathione pool and lip