Taurine protects rat testes against NaAsO2-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis via mitochondrial dependent and independent pathways

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-210

  Das, Joydeep ^a   Ghosh, Jyotirmoy ^a   Manna, Prasenjit ^a   Sinha, Mahua ^a   Sil, Parames C ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Apoptosis; Arsenic; Cell survival; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Signal transduction; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; CYTOCHROME C; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; ARSENITES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TAURINE; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

RATTUS;

EID: 64549148841     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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