Improvement of liver antioxidant status in hypercholesterolamic rats treated-with Anethum graveolens extracts

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 119-132

  Bahramikia, Seifollah ^a   Yazdanparast, Razieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anethum graveolens; Antioxidant activity; Lipid peroxidation; Reduced glutathione

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CATECHIN; CATION; DILL EXTRACT; FERRIC ION; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MALONALDEHYDE; PETROLEUM; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TROLOX C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID DIET; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 37649002974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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