Glycine prevents hepatic fibrosis by preventing the accumulation of collagen in rats with alcoholic liver injury

Polish Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-128

  Senthilkumar, Rajagopal ^a   Nalini, Namasivayam ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Collagen; Cross linking; Ethanol; Glycine; Lipid peroxidation; Shrinkage temperature

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COLLAGEN; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; HYDROXYPROLINE; LIVER PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOLUBILITY; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOL; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; HYDROXYPROLINE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1942420869     PISSN: 12306002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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