Isoquercitrin is the most effective antioxidant in the plant Thuja orientalis and able to counteract oxidative-induced damage to a transformed cell line (RGC-5 cells)

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 713-721

  Jung, Sang Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Beum Jin ^a   Lee, Eun Ha ^b   Osborne, Neville N ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Fundacion de Investigacion Oftalmologica   (Spain)

^d Ca' tedra de Biomedicina (Chair in Biomedicine) supported by the Fundacio'n BVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell cultures; Flavonoid; Isoquercitrin; Lipid peroxidation; Neuroprotection; Oxidative stress; Retina; Thuja orientalis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; AMENTOFLAVONE; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 1; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXIDE; HYPOLETIN 7 O BETA DEXTRO XYLOPYRANOSIDE; ISOQUERCITRIN; KAEMPFERIN; KAEMPFEROL; MYRICETIN 3 RHAMNOSIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; QUERCITRIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GLAUCOMA; IC 50; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; THUJA ORIENTALIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAVES; QUERCETIN; RATS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; THUJA;

PLATYCLADUS ORIENTALIS; RATTUS;

EID: 77958086270     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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