Effect of melatonin in the antioxidant defense system in the locomotor muscles of the estuarine crab Neohelice granulata (Decapoda, Brachyura)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-82

  Geihs, Márcio Alberto ^a   Vargas, Marcelo Alves ^b   Maciel, Fábio Everton ^a   Caldas, Sergiane Souza ^a   Cruz, Bruno Pinto ^a   Primel, Ednei Gilberto ^a   Monserrat, José Maria ^a   Nery, Luiz Eduardo Maia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aerobic metabolism; AFMK; Antioxidant defense system; Crustacea; Locomotor muscles; Melatonin; Neohelice granulata

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; KYNURAMINE; MELATONIN; N ACETYL N FORMYL 5 METHOXYKYNURAMINE; PEROXY RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GANGLION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77349116153     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.09.018     Document Type: Article

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