The effect of ovarian hormones on antioxidant enzyme activities in the brain of male rats

Physiological Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-194

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Brain; Estradiol; Progesterone; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; CATALASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WF;

EID: 0037258007     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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