Protective effect of biflavones from Araucaria bidwillii Hook in rat cerebral ischemia/reperfusion induced oxidative stress

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-228

  Mukherjee, Pulok K ^a,b   Ahamed, K F H Nazeer ^a   Kumar, Venkatesan ^a   Mukherjee, Kakali ^a   Houghton, Peter J ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Araucaria bidwillii Hook; Bilateral common cerebral artery occlusion; Flavonoids; Ischemia reperfusion; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARAUCARIA BIDWILLII HOOK EXTRACT; BIFLAVONE RICH FRACTION; CATALASE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; PLANT EXTRACT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARAUCARIA BIDWILLII HOOK; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIFLAVONOIDS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPERFUSION INJURY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33847363051     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.12.025     Document Type: Article

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