Curcumin and kolaviron ameliorate di-n-butylphthalate-induced testicular damage in rats

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-48

  Farombi, Ebenezer Olatunde ^a   Abarikwu, Sunday O ^a   Adedara, Isaac A ^a   Oyeyemi, Matthew O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFLAVONOID; CATALASE; CURCUMIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE; KOLAVIRON; MALONALDEHYDE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFOLIATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMOPREVENTION; CURCUMA; CURCUMIN; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLAVONOIDS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GARCINIA KOLA; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASTICIZERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CURCUMA LONGA; GARCINIA KOLA;

EID: 33846016250     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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