Antagonistic effects of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides on the impaired reproductive system of male rats induced by local subchronic exposure to 60Co-γ irradiation

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 694-701

  Luo, Qiong ^a   Cui, Xiaoyan ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Yang, Mingliang ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Jiang, Yuanhai ^a   Li, Jingjing ^a   Zhou, Yinzhu ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

60Co irradiation; antioxidation; DNA damage; Lycium barbarum polysaccharides; reproductive function; serum hormone levels

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; MALONALDEHYDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG MECHANISM; EJACULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAMMA RADIATION; LYCIUM; LYCIUM BARBARUM; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PENIS ERECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS INJURY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FRUIT; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LYCIUM; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

LYCIUM BARBARUM; RATTUS;

EID: 79955532252     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3314     Document Type: Article

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