Oxidative stress in rat striatum after pilocarpine-induced seizures is diminished by alpha-tocopherol

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 668, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 65-71

  Santos, Pauline Sousa Dos ^a   Costa, Jéssica Pereira ^a   Tomé, Adriana Da Rocha ^b   Saldanha, Gláucio Barros ^c   De Souza, Geane Felix ^c   Feng, Dejiang ^d   De Freitas, Rivelilson Mendes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Laboratory of Clinical Pathology   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha tocopherol; Catalase; Pilocarpine; Seizures; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CATALASE; LIPID; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRITE; PILOCARPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATALASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052052241     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: 18790712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2011.06.035     Document Type: Article

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