Influence of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench extract on the toxicity of cadmium

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1095, Issue , 2007, Pages 585-592

  Zitkevicius, Virgilijus ^c,d   Smalinskiene, Alina ^a   Lesauskaite, Vaiva ^b   Savickiene, Nijole ^c   Savickas, Arunas ^d   Ryselis, Stanislovas ^a   Kregzdyte, Rima ^a   Abdrakhmanov, Oleg ^a   Sadauskiene, Ilona ^a   Ivanov, Leonid ^a  

^a Institute for Biomedical Research   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^c Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy ^*  (Lithuania)

^d KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atomic absorption spectroscopy; Cadmium; Echinacea purpurea; Mice; Mitotic index

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLANT EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HEART; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLEEN; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHINACEA; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ECHINACEA PURPUREA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHINACEA; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT EXTRACTS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 34247895502     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1397.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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