Ex vivo assessment of protective effects of carvacrol against DNA lesions induced in primary rat cells by visible light excited methylene blue (VL+MB)

Neoplasma

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-19

  Slamenova, D ^a   Horvathova, E ^a   Chalupa, I ^a   Wsolova, L ^b   Navarova, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Research Base of the Slovak Medical University   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; Chromosomal aberrations; Comet assay; DPPH assay; Hepatocytes; Testicular cells

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; METHYLENE BLUE; SINGLET OXYGEN; TERPENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; EX VIVO STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; LIGHT; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; TESTICULAR CELL; ANIMAL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; HEPATOCYTES; LIGHT; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MONOTERPENES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINGLET OXYGEN; TESTIS;

EID: 79961112099     PISSN: 00282685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/neo_2011_01_14     Document Type: Article

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