Role of quercetin in preventing thioacetamide-induced liver injury in rats

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 949-957

  De David, Cíntia ^a   Rodrigues, Graziella ^a   Bona, Silvia ^a   Meurer, Luise ^a   González Gallego, Javier ^b   Tuñón, María Jesús ^b   Marroni, Norma Possa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

hepatotoxicity; oxidative stress; quercetin; thioacetamide

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; QUERCETIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID PEROXIDES; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOACETAMIDE;

RATTUS;

EID: 80053578941     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623311418680     Document Type: Article

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