Protective effect of lycium barbarum polysaccharides against doxorubicin-induced testicular toxicity in rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 716-721

  Xin, Yan Fei ^a   You, Zhen Qiang ^a   Gao, Hai Yan ^a   Zhou, Guo Liang ^a   Chen, Yun Xiang ^a   Yu, Jian ^a   Xuan, Yao Xian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

antioxidant; doxorubicin; Lycium barbarum polysaccharides; testicular toxicity

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE GENITAL SYSTEM; DOXORUBICIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLYSACCHARIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TESTOSTERONE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYCIUM; LYCIUM BARBARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR TOXICITY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; DOXORUBICIN; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYCIUM; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

LYCIUM BARBARUM; RATTUS;

EID: 84859895078     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3633     Document Type: Article

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