Curcumin protects against the oxidative damage induced by the pesticide parathion in the hippocampus of the rat brain

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Canales Aguirre, Alejandro A ^a   Gomez Pinedo, Ulises A ^b   Luquin, Sonia ^c   Ramírez Herrera, Mario A ^c   Mendoza Magaña, María L ^c   Feria Velasco, Alfredo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DERMATOLÓGICO DE JALISCO DR JOSÉ BARBA RUBIO   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Curcumin; Neurodegenerative damage; Oxidative stress; Parathion

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; CURCUMIN; PARATHION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MICROGLIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

CURCUMA LONGA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84858957936     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830511Y.0000000034     Document Type: Article

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