Curcumin attenuates ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat testis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 271-277

  Wei, Si Ming ^a,c   Yan, Zhi Zhong ^b   Zhou, Jian ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG CHINESE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Curcumin; ischemia reperfusion injury; testicular torsion

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; HEME OXYGENASE 1; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS TORSION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CURCUMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; TESTIS; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EID: 57849105193     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.082     Document Type: Article

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