Astaxanthin protects β-cells against glucose toxicity in diabetic db/db mice

Redox Report

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 290-293

  Uchiyama, Kazuhiko ^a   Naito, Yuji ^a   Hasegawa, Goji ^a   Nakamura, Naoto ^a   Takahashi, Jiro ^b   Yoshikawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUCOSE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TIME FACTORS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036920230     PISSN: 13510002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/135100002125000811     Document Type: Article

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