Prevention of endotoxin-induced uveitis in rats by plant sterol guggulsterone

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5105-5113

  Kalariya, Nilesh M ^a   Shoeb, Mohammad ^a   Reddy, Aramati B M ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   van Kuijk, Frederik J G M ^a   Ramana, Kota V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ENDOTOXIN; GELATINASE A; GUGGULSTERONE; I KAPPA B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOKINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NOS2 PROTEIN, RAT; PREGNA 4,17 DIENE 3,16 DIONE; PREGNA-4,17-DIENE-3,16-DIONE; PREGNANE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UVEITIS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CILIARY BODY; COMMIPHORA; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEWIS RAT; METABOLISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY BODY; COMMIPHORA; CYTOKINES; DINOPROSTONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PREGNENEDIONES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; UVEITIS;

EID: 77958131749     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4873     Document Type: Article

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