Can apricot kernels fatty acids delay the atrophied hepatocytes from progression to fibrosis in dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)-induced liver injury in rats?

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Abdel Rahman, Manal K ^a  

^a University of Helwan   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Cyanide; Dimethylnitrosamine; Ground apricots kernel (GAK); Liver fibrosis

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALIN; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; CATALASE; FATTY ACID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APRICOT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG STRUCTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLANT SEED; RAT; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PRUNUS; TOXIC HEPATITIS;

PRUNUS ARMENIACA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CATALASE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; ENZYME ASSAYS; FATTY ACIDS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HEPATOCYTES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT OILS; PRUNUS; RATS; SEEDS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 80051745101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-10-114     Document Type: Article

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