Monascin from red mold dioscorea as a novel antidiabetic and antioxidative stress agent in rats and Caenorhabditis elegans

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-117

  Shi, Yeu Ching ^a   Liao, Vivian Hsiu Chuan ^a   Pan, Tzu Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Caenorhabditis elegans; Free radicals; Insulin signaling pathway; Monascin

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; MONASCIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAT STRESS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATALASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIOSCOREA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS, 3-RING; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS; RATS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIOSCOREA; RATTUS;

EID: 84655162066     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.09.034     Document Type: Article

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