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Nrf2 protects against furosemide-induced hepatotoxicity.
Toxicology - 3 Oct 2014
Qu Qiang, Liu Jie, Zhou Hong-Hao, Klaassen Curtis D
Abstract excerpt
Furosemide is a diuretic drug, but its reactive intermediates lead to acute liver injury in mice. Given the essential role of Nrf2 as a cellular defense regulator, we investigated whether Nrf2 would protect against furosemide-induced liver injury using the Nrf2 "gene-dose response" mouse model (Nrf2-null with Nrf2 knock-out, wild-type with normal expression of Nrf2, Keap1-KD with enhanced Nrf2 activation and...
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