Attenuation of arsenic neurotoxicity by curcumin in rats

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 367-376

  Yadav, Rajesh S ^a   Sankhwar, Madhu Lata ^a   Shukla, Rajendra K ^a   Chandra, Ramesh ^a   Pant, Aditya B ^a   Islam, Fakhrul ^b   Khanna, Vinay K ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Curcumin; Dopamine receptors; Neuroprotection; Oxidative stress; TH immunoreactivity

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CATALASE; CURCUMIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRIP STRENGTH; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ROTAROD TEST;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CATALASE; CURCUMIN; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

RATTUS;

EID: 70350028185     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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