The ultrastructural and biochemical evidences of the beneficial effects of chronic caffeic acid phenethyl ester and melatonin administration on brain and cerebellum of aged rats

Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-315

  Eşrefoǧlu, Mukaddes ^a   Gül, Mehmet ^a   Ateş, Burhan ^b   Yilmaz, Ismet ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ageing; Brain; CAPE; Cerebellum; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

5,5' DITHIOBIS(2 NITROBENZOIC ACID); CAFFEIC ACID PHENETHYL ESTER; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN REGION; CELL DAMAGE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAFFEIC ACIDS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRUM; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; MALE; MELATONIN; NEURONS; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77952572875     PISSN: 07673981     EISSN: 14728206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2009.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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