Dietary taurine reduces retinal damage produced by photochemical stress via antioxidant and anti-apoptotic mechanisms in Sprague-Dawley rats

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 711-719

  Yu, Xiaoping ^a   Chen, Ka ^a   Wei, Na ^a   Zhang, Qianyong ^a   Liu, Jihuan ^a   Mi, Mantian ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Apoptosis; Photochemical damage; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; TAURINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE PROTECTION; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; RETINA INJURY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; DIET; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DISEASES; TAURINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

RATTUS;

EID: 34748844033     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114507744409     Document Type: Article

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