Teucrium polium reversed the MCD diet-induced liver injury in rats

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1303-1312

  Amini, Rahim ^a   Yazdanparast, Razieh ^a   Aghazadeh, Safiyeh ^a   Ghaffari, Seyed H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

ERK; JNK; nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; Teucrium polium; TGF ; TNF

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEUCRIUM POLIUM EXTRACT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; METHIONINE AND CHOLINE DEFICIENT DIET; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CASPASE 3; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIVER; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MAP KINASE KINASE 4; METHIONINE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEUCRIUM; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

RATTUS; TEUCRIUM POLIUM;

EID: 79960877031     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327110388961     Document Type: Article

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