Antioxidant effect of triticum aestivium (wheat grass) in high-fat diet-induced oxidative stress in rabbits

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 233-235

  Sethi, J ^a   Yadav, M ^a   Dahiya, K ^a   Sood, S ^a   Singh, V ^a   Bhattacharya, S B ^a  

^a PT B D SHARMA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; GLUTATHIONE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MALONALDEHYDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URJA 777; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID DIET; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRITICUM AESTIVIUM; WHEAT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FAT INTAKE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; DIETARY FATS; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RABBITS; TRITICUM;

EID: 77956209014     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2010.32.4.1423889     Document Type: Article

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