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The action of D-penicillamine on cytochrome oxidase in vivo and in vitro

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The activity of cytochrome oxidase greatly decreases in the organs of rats treated with D-penicillamine for 20 days (30 mg/100 g/day). Although the drug does not affect cytochrome oxidase in vitro, it readily reduces oxidized cyt. c.

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  1. Centre of the Italian National Research Council for the Physiology and Biochemistry of Hemocyanins and other Metallo Proteins, Institute of Animal Biology, University of Padova, Via Loredan 10, I-35100, Padova, Italy

    V. Albergoni, N. Favero & F. Ghiretti

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Albergoni, V., Favero, N. & Ghiretti, F. The action of D-penicillamine on cytochrome oxidase in vivo and in vitro. Experientia 33, 17–18 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01936726

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