Salutary effects of N-acetylcysteine on apoptotic damage in a rat model of testicular torsion

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 248-254

  Payabvash, Seyedmehdi ^a   Salmasi, Amirali Hassanzadeh ^a   Kiumehr, Saman ^a   Tavangar, Seyed Mohammad ^b   Nourbakhsh, Bardia ^a   Faghihi, Seyed Hamed ^a   Dehpour, Ahmad Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ischemia reperfusion injury; N acetylcysteine; Testicular torsion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GERM CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS TORSION;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; CATALASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS;

EID: 35348817373     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107958     Document Type: Article

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