Influence of gender on oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, protein damage and apoptosis in hearts and brains from spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 432-438

  Ren, Jun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Brain; Gender; Heart; Hypertension; Myocyte shortening; Tissue damage

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HYPERTENSION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; PROTEIN DEFECT; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CASPASE 3; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; HYPERTENSION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33947674281     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04591.x     Document Type: Article

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