The anti-oxidative defence system in the isolated rat uterus during spontaneous rhythmic activity

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-339

  Slavic M ^a   Appiah, I ^a   Nikolic Kokic A ^a   Radojicic R ^a   Jones, D R ^a   Spasić, Mihajlo B ^a   Milovanovic S ^a,b   Blagojevic D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Anti oxidative enzymes; Catalase; Glutathione peroxidase; Glutathione reductase; Rat uterus; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; ISOLATED ORGAN; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 33845882797     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: 15882683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/APhysiol.93.2006.4.9     Document Type: Article

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