Curcumin attenuation of acute adriamycin myocardial toxicity in rats

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 425-427

  Venkatesan, Narayanan ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL LEATHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adriamycin; Cardiotoxicity; Catalase; Curcumin; Electrocardiogram; Free radicals; Glutathione peroxidase

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLORING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; CURCUMIN; DOXORUBICIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALONALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART PROTECTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CREATINE KINASE; CURCUMIN; DOXORUBICIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031801988     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701877     Document Type: Article

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