Evaluation of lenticular antioxidant and redox system components in the lenses of acetyl-L-carnitine treatment in BSO-induced glutathione deprivation

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1485-1491

  Elanchezhian, R ^a   Sakthivel, M ^a   Isai, M ^a   Geraldine, P ^a   Thomas, P A ^b  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JOSEPH EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LEVACECARNINE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE EXAMINATION; LENS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PUP (RODENT); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SLIT LAMP; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUTATHIONE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 68349098790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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