Quercetin protects human-derived liver cells against mercury-induced DNA-damage and alterations of the redox status

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 726, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-115

  Barcelos, Gustavo Rafael Mazzaron ^a   Angeli, José Pedro Friedmann ^a   Serpeloni, Juliana Mara ^a   Grotto, Denise ^a   Rocha, Bruno Alves ^a   Bastos, Jairo Kenupp ^a   Knasmüller, Siegfried ^b   Júnior, Fernando Barbosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Genotoxicity; Mercury chloride; Methylmercury; Quercetin; Redox status

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; DRUG METABOLIZING ENZYME; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MERCURY CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY; QUERCETIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION;

ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL SURVIVAL; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DNA DAMAGE; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUERCETIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 81055156809     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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