Oxidative stress in the hippocampus during experimental seizures can be ameliorated with the antioxidant ascorbic acid

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 214-221

  Santos, Ítala Mônica Sales ^a   Da Rocha Tomé, Adriana ^b   Saldanha, Gláucio Barros ^c   Ferreira, Paulo Michel Pinheiro ^a   Militão, Gardenia Carmem Gadelha ^a   De Freitas, Rivelilson Mendes ^a,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Faculdade Católica Rainha do Sertão FCRS   (Brazil)

^d Campus Senador Helvídio Nunes de Barros ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Hippocampus; Oxidative stress; Pilocarpine; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; NITRITE; PILOCARPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SEIZURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 70349717463     PISSN: 19420900     EISSN: 19420994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/oxim.2.4.8876     Document Type: Article

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