Thymoquinone ameliorates renal oxidative damage and proliferative response induced by mercuric chloride in rats

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-118

  Fouda, Abdel Motaal M ^a   Daba, Mohamad Hesham Y ^a   Dahab, Gamal M ^a   Sharaf El Din, Osama A ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CREATININE; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; THYMOQUINONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DETERIORATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BENZOQUINONES; CELL PROLIFERATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NECROSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 47649095969     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2008.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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