Vitex negundo attenuates calpain activation and cataractogenesis in selenite models

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-582

  Rooban, B N ^a   Lija, Y ^a   Biju, P G ^a   Sasikala, V ^a   Sahasranamam, V ^b   Abraham, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

antioxidants; calpains; flavonoids; oxidative stress; quercetin; selenite cataract; Vitex negundo

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ANTIOXIDANT; CALPAIN; CATALASE; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; LENS PROTEIN; PLANT EXTRACT; QUERCETIN; SELENITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; VITEX NEGUNDO EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE EXAMINATION; LIPID OXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; CALPAIN; CATARACT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HOMEOSTASIS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SODIUM SELENITE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; VITEX;

EID: 61549127921     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.11.020     Document Type: Article

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