Camel's milk protects against aluminum chloride-induced normocytic normocromic anemia, lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in erythrocytes of white albino rats

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Al Hashem, Fahaid ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Aluminum chloride; Camel's milk; Erythrocytes; Oxidative stress; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ALUMINUM CHLORIDES; ALUMINUM TOXICITY; ANTIOXIDANT SYSTEMS; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEL'S MILK; CLINICAL DISORDERS; CONCENTRATION OF; CONTROL GROUPS; ENZYMES ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION; ION BINDING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; ORAL ADMINISTRATION; PROBLEM STATEMENT; RED BLOOD CELL; RED BLOOD CELLS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TOXIC EFFECT; TREATMENT GROUP;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENZYMES; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; FREE RADICALS; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; TOXICITY;

RATS;

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; ENZYME; FREE RADICAL; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; LIPID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ALBINISM; ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MILK; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; TOXICOLOGY;

RATTUS;

EID: 68049112370     PISSN: 15533468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajbbsp.2009.127.136     Document Type: Article

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