Hepatoprotective and antioxidant effect of Pisonia aculeata L. against CCl 4- induced hepatic damage in rats

Scientia Pharmaceutica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-215

  Palanivel, Muthu Gounder ^a   Rajkapoor, Balasubramanian ^b   Senthil Kumar, Raju ^c   Einstein, John Wilking ^b   Kumar, Ekambaram Prem ^b   Rupesh Kumar, Mani ^d   Kavitha, Kunchu ^d   Pradeep Kumar, Mohanraj ^b   Jayakar, Balasundaram ^a  

^a VINAYAKA MISSION S RESEARCH FOUNDATION DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b St John's Pharmacy College   (India)

^c SWAMY VIVEKANANDHA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (India)

^d BHARATHI COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Biochemical parameters; Carbon tetrachloride; Histopathology; Lipid peroxidation; Pisonia aculeate

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CATALASE; GAMMA GLUTAMATE TRANSPEPTIDASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIPID PEROXIDASE; PISONIA ACULEATA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SILYMARIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL;

EID: 46249088735     PISSN: 00368709     EISSN: 22180532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3797/scipharm.0803-16     Document Type: Article

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