Addition of açaí (Euterpe oleracea) to cigarettes has a protective effect against emphysema in mice

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 855-863

  De Moura, Roberto Soares ^a   Pires, Karla Maria Pereira ^a   Ferreira, Thiago Santos ^a,b   Lopes, Alan Aguiar ^a,b   Nesi, Renata Tiscoski ^b   Resende, Angela Castro ^a   Sousa, Pergentino Jose Cunha ^c   da Silva, Antonio Jorge Ribeiro ^b   Porto, Luis Cristóvão ^a   Valenca, Samuel Santos ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

A ai (Euterpe oleracea); Cigarette smoke; Emphysema; Inflammation; Mouse; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYNONENAL; CIGARETTE SMOKE; EUTERPE OLERACEA EXTRACT; GLUTATHIONE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUTERPE OLERACEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTECTION;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; EMPHYSEMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ANIMALIA; EUTERPE OLERACEA; MUS;

EID: 79952451615     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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