Single high dose dexamethasone treatment decreases the pathological score and increases the survival rate of paraquat-intoxicated rats

Toxicology

Volumn 227, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 73-85

  Dinis Oliveira, R J ^a   Duarte, J A ^b   Remiao F ^a   Sanchez Navarro A ^c   Bastos, M L ^a   Carvalho, Félix ^a  

^a Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Kidney; Liver; Lung; Oxidative damage; Paraquat; Rats; Spleen

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLYCOPROTEIN P; MYELOPEROXIDASE; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; PARAQUAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAQUAT POISONING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE INJURY;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGAN SIZE; PARAQUAT; PEROXIDASE; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33748740652     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2006.07.025     Document Type: Article

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