Curcumin protects DNA damage in a chronically arsenic-exposed population of West Bengal

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 513-524

  Biswas, Jaydip ^a   Sinha, Dona ^a   Mukherjee, Sutapa ^a   Roy, Soumi ^a   Siddiqi, Maqsood ^b   Roy, Madhumita ^a  

^a CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Cancer Foundation of India   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Arsenic; Curcumin; DNA damage; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CATALASE; CURCUMIN; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GROUND WATER; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DENATURATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; CURCUMIN; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INDIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

CURCUMA LONGA;

EID: 77952270944     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327109359020     Document Type: Article

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