Effects of anapsos on the activity of the enzyme Cu-Zn-superoxide dismutase in an animal model of neuronal degeneration

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Fernandez Novoa L ^a   Alvarez, X A ^a   Sempere, J M ^b   Miguel Hidalgo, J J ^a   Diaz J ^b   Franco Maside, A ^a   Cacabelos, R ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion Biomedica EuroEspes   (Spain)

^b ASAC Pharma   (Spain)

Author keywords

anapsos; animal model; brain; hippocampus; neurodegeneration; rat; SOD; amyloid protein

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPODIUM LEUCOTOMOS EXTRACT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPLEEN; TISSUE DEGENERATION;

EID: 0030965109     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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