Effects of progesterone and estradiol benzoate on glutathione dependent antioxidant enzyme activities in the brain of female rats

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-44

  Pajovic S B ^a   Saicic Z S ^b   Spasic M B ^b   Petrovic V M ^b   Martinovic J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Brain; Estradiol; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; ENCEPHALE ISOLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; CATALASE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0032912877     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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