Oxidative stress after sulfur mustard intoxication and its reduction by melatonin: Efficacy of antioxidant therapy during serious intoxication

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-91

  Pohanka, Miroslav ^a,b   Sobotka, Jakub ^a,b   Jilkova, Martina ^b   Stetina, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blister gas; Melatonin; Mustard gas; Oxidative stress; Treatment; Vesicants; Yperite

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; MELATONIN; MUSTARD GAS; PLASMA PROTEIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBONYLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTOXICATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MUSTARD GAS INTOXICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MELATONIN; MUSTARD GAS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POISONING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

RATTUS;

EID: 78649978063     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: 15256014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01480545.2010.505238     Document Type: Article

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