Potential protective effects of melatonin on bone marrow of rats exposed to cytotoxic drugs

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 493-501

  Anwar, Mamdouh M ^a,b   Mahfouz, Hussein A ^b   Sayed, Arafat S ^a  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Aracytin; Bone marrow; Cancer; Hemoglobin; Melatonin; Pineal gland; Red blood cells; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; GLOBULIN; MELATONIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PROTECTION; RAT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0032007234     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(97)00456-X     Document Type: Article

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