Melatonin treatment for prevention of oxidative stress: Involving histopathological changes

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-132

  Yildirim, Özlem ^a   Comoglu S ^b   Yardimci, S ^a   Akmansu, M ^c   Bozkurt, G ^d   Avunduk, M C ^e  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b 2nd Neurological Clinic   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antioxidative enzymes; Central nervous system; Irradiation; Light microscopy; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; MELATONIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICROSCOPY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GAMMA RAYS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MELATONIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

RATTUS;

EID: 34548786798     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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