Melatonin reverses urinary system and aorta damage in the rat due to chronic nicotine administration

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-366

  Sener, Göksel ^a   Kapucu, Caner ^a   Paskaloglu, Kübra ^a   Ayanoglu Dülger, Gül ^a   Arbak, Serap ^a   Ersoy, Yasemin ^a   Alican, Inci ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; NICOTINE TARTRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AORTA CONSTRICTION; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOSE RESPONSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; TISSUE INJURY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CREATININE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GLUTATHIONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KIDNEY; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NICOTINE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 1642399077     PISSN: 00223573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1211/0022357022818     Document Type: Article

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