Enantiospecific effects of ketoconazole on aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

Azole antifungal ketoconazole (KET) was demonstrated to activate aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). Since clinically used KET is a racemic mixture of two cis-enantiomers (2R,4S)-(+)-KET and (2S,4R)-(-)-KET, we examined the effects of KET enantiomers on AhR signaling pathway. (+)-KET dose-dependently a...

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Main Authors: Aneta Novotna, Martina Korhonova, Iveta Bartonkova, Anatoly A Soshilov, Michael S Denison, Katerina Bogdanova, Milan Kolar, Petr Bednar, Zdenek Dvorak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4084896?pdf=render