Khat a drug of abuse: Roles of free radicals and antioxidants

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 548-551

  Aleryani, Samir L ^a   Aleryani, Rowaida A ^a,c   Al Akwa, Ahmed A ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c Yemen Women Union   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Cellular damage; Free radicals; Khat; Liver; Reactive nitrogen species; Reactive oxygen species; Superoxide

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS;

CELLULAR DAMAGE; CELLULAR INJURY; DRUG OF ABUSE; HEALTH IMPACT; KHAT; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUPEROXIDES;

FREE RADICALS;

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT; CATHINONE; DOPAMINE; FLAVONOID; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

APOPTOSIS; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CATHA EDULIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DRUG ABUSE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 80053391278     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.224     Document Type: Short Survey

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