Nigella sativa thymoquinone-rich fraction greatly improves plasma antioxidant capacity and expression of antioxidant genes in hypercholesterolemic rats

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 664-672

  Ismail, Maznah ^a,b   Al Naqeep, Ghanya ^a,b   Chan, Kim Wei ^a  

^a Institute of Bioscience   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant gene expression; Free radicals; Nigella sativa; Plasma antioxidant capacity; Thymoquinone; Thymoquinone rich fraction

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA ACTIN; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 2; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; THYMOQUINONE; THYMOQUINONE RICH FRACTION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLACK CUMIN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER EXAMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UPREGULATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BENZOQUINONES; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; LIVER; MALE; NIGELLA SATIVA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

NIGELLA SATIVA; RATTUS;

EID: 75149187342     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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