Biochemical and immunological basis of silymarin effect, a milk thistle (Silybum marianum) against ethanol-induced oxidative damage

Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 409-413

  Das, Subir Kumar ^a   Mukherjee, Sukhes ^b  

^a CALCUTTA NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cytokines; ethanol; glutathione; oxidative stress; reactive oxygen species; silymarin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; NITRITE; SILIBININ; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SILYBUM MARIANUM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SILYMARIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TIME FACTORS;

MUS; SILYBUM MARIANUM;

EID: 84860872039     PISSN: 15376516     EISSN: 15376524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15376516.2012.673090     Document Type: Article

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