Effects of pregnenolone-16α-carbonitrile on vitamin E status and protein levels of antioxidant enzymes in male rats fed a vitamin E-supplemented diet

Redox Report

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 61-68

  Shaw, Huey Mei ^a   Chen, Wan Hsuan ^a  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

tocopherol; Antioxidant enzyme; Cytochrome P450; Rat; TBARS

Indexed keywords

16ALPHA CYANOPREGNENOLONE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL TRANSFER PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CATALASE; CYTOCHROME P450 3A; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; CYP3A1 PROTEIN, RAT; CYP3A2 PROTEIN, RAT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HEART; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER MICROSOME; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TESTIS; TISSUE LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOMIZATION;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; CATALASE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSOMES, LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNENOLONE CARBONITRILE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 69249106554     PISSN: 13510002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/135100009X392494     Document Type: Article

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