Detoxification and antioxidant effects of curcumin in rats experimentally exposed to mercury

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 457-468

  Agarwal, Rakhi ^a,b   Goel, Sudhir K ^a   Behari, Jai Raj ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b GUJARAT FORENSIC SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant defense system; Curcumin; Histopathology; Mercury; MT expression; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CURCUMIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ANTIOXIDANT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MALONALDEHYDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY INJURY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG INACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURY POISONING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CURCUMIN; DISINFECTANTS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTATHIONE; INACTIVATION, METABOLIC; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY POISONING; METALLOTHIONEIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77955348524     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.1517     Document Type: Article

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