Role of melatonin in reducing water avoidance stress-induced degeneration of the liver

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 738-744

  Contuk, Gazi ^a   Ercan, Feriha ^a,b   Çetinel, Şule ^a   Çikler, Esra ^a   Şener, Göksel ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Lipid peroxidation; Liver; Melatonin; Morphology; Water avoidance stress

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SINUSOID; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER AVOIDANCE STRESS;

EID: 17644389906     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-005-2566-0     Document Type: Article

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