Aqueous garlic extract attenuates hepatitis and oxidative stress induced by galactosamine/lipoploysaccharide in rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1372-1379

  El Beshbishy, Hesham A ^a,b  

^a Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; D galactosamine; Garlic extract; Hepatitis; Lipids; Lipopolysaccharide; Liver; Myeloperoxidase; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACID; GALACTOSAMINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GARLIC EXTRACT; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS; LIVER HOMOGENATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; GALACTOSAMINE; GARLIC; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; RATTUS;

EID: 55449138253     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2505     Document Type: Article

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