Dietary curcumin prevents ocular toxicity of naphthalene in rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 195-204

  Pandya, Utpal ^a   Saini, Manjit K ^a   Jin, Gui F ^a   Awasthi, Sanjay ^b   Godley, Bernard F ^a   Awasthi, Yogesh C ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cataract; Curcumin; Naphthalene; Rat lens

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CURCUMIN; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; NAPHTHALENE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DIET; EYE TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLIT LAMP;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATARACT; CURCUMIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCEIN; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; NAPHTHALENES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; CURCUMA LONGA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0034608429     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(00)00191-0     Document Type: Article

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