Role of dietary GSH in the amelioration of sodium arsenite-induced ovarian and uterine disorders

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 481-488

  Chattopadhyay, Sandip ^a   Ghosh, Debidas ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Brain monoamines; GSH; Ovarian follicles; Peroxidase; Sodium arsenite; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; GLUTATHIONE; GONADOTROPIN; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DIESTRUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARSENITES; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GONADOTROPINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OVARY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; UTERUS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77956442035     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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