Treatment with aged garlic extract protects against bromobenzene toxicity to precision cut rat liver slices

Toxicology

Volumn 132, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 215-225

  Wang, Bo Han ^a   Zuzel, Katherine A ^a   Rahman, Khalid ^a   Billington, David ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bromobenzene; Garlic; Glutathione; Hepatotoxicity; Liver slices

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BROMOBENZENE; GARLIC EXTRACT; GLUTATHIONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM; PROTECTIVE AGENT; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIVER SLICE; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BROMOBENZENES; GARLIC; GLUTATHIONE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033033566     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(99)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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