Reduction of chrysotile asbestos-induced genotoxicity in human peripheral blood lymphocytes by garlic extract

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-332

  Bhattacharya, Kunal ^a   Yadava, Santosh ^a   Papp, Thilo ^b   Schiffmann, Dietmar ^b   Rahman, Qamar ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzyme (AOE); Diallyl disulfide (DADS); Diallyl sulfide (DAS); Dimethylthiourea (DMTU); Garlic extract (GE); Glutathione S transferase (GST); Human peripheral blood lymphocytes (HUPBL); Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Superoxide dismutase (SOD)

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASBESTOS FIBER; CHRYSOTILE; GARLIC EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CHROMATID EXCHANGE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; CARCINOGENS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GARLIC; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 5344260408     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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