Comparison of the effects of vitamin E and/or quercetin in attenuating chronic cyclosporine A-induced nephrotoxicity in male rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 720-724

  Zal, Fatemeh ^a,b   Mostafavi Pour, Zohreh ^b   Vessal, Mahmood ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anti oxidant enzymes; Chronic nephrotoxicity; Cyclosporine A; Malondialdehyde; Quercetin; Renal function; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; NITROGEN; OLIVE OIL; OXYGEN RADICAL; QUERCETIN; UREA; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; TISSUE LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CATALASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 34347355327     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04623.x     Document Type: Article

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