Effect of curcumin on galactose-induced cataractogenesis in rats

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 223-230

  Suryanarayana, Palla ^a   Krishnaswamy, Kamala ^a   Bhanuprakash Reddy, Geereddy ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CRYSTALLIN; CURCUMIN; GALACTOSE; GLUTATHIONE; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID; PROTEIN; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CURCUMA LONGA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MATURATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SLIT LAMP; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; CURCUMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; GALACTOSE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; L-IDITOL 2-DEHYDROGENASE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

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