CELLULAR UPTAKE OF COPPER BY HEPATOCYTES
- 27 April 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Vol. 49 (4) , 123-125
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1991.tb03003.x
Abstract
Selective accumulation of copper in isolated hepatocytes compared to fibroblasts is due in part to decreased copper efflux, perhaps the result of the presence of high-affinity intracellular copper-binding proteins. Preferential accumulation of copper by the liver may serve to protect extrahepatic tissues from copper toxicity.Keywords
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