Acidic polysaccharide of Panax ginseng as a defense against small intestinal damage by whole-body gamma irradiation of mice

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-23

  Park, Eunjin ^a   Hwang, Insun ^a   Song, Jie Young ^b   Jee, Youngheun ^a  

^a Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Radiation and Medical Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acidic polysaccharide; Apoptosis; Ionizing radiation; Mice; Panax ginseng; Radioprotection; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ACID POLYSACCHARIDE; GINSENG EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE INJURY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION PROTECTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; UPREGULATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PANAX; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

MUS; PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 78649818624     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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