Effect of taurine treatment on pro-oxidant-antioxidant balance in livers and brains of old rats

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 673-678

  Parildar Karpuzoǧlu, Hande ^a   Mehmetçik, Güldal ^b   Özdemirler Erata, Gül ^a   Doǧru Abbasoǧlu, Semra ^a   Koçak Toker, Necla ^a   Uysal, Müjdat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aging; Antioxidants; Brain; Lipid peroxidation; Liver; Rats; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; MALONALDEHYDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT;

EID: 57849097546     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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