Preserving effects of melatonin on the levels of glutathione and malondialdehyde in rats exposed to irradiation

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-37

  Yildirim, Özlem ^a   Comoglu S ^b   Yardimci, S ^a   Akmansu, M ^c   Bozkurt, G ^d   Surucu S ^d  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Diskapi Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Irradiation; Melatonin; Oxidative stress; Rat

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IONIZING RADIATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTATHIONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 43149101245     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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