Metabolism of naphthalene by liver slices
- 1 February 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 53 (3) , 424-426
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0530424
Abstract
On aerobic incubation with liver slices naphthalene was apparently slowly converted to l,2-dihydroxy-l,2-dihydronaphthalene but not to 1-naphthol. The rate of the reaction in vitro is sufficient to account for the metabolic production of the diol in rats.Keywords
This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The metabolism of naphthalene in rabbitsBiochemical Journal, 1934