Agrimonia eupatoria protects against chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2335-2341

  Yoon, Seong Jin ^a   Koh, Eun Ji ^a   Kim, Chang Soo ^a   Zee, Ok Pyo ^a   Kwak, Jong Hwan ^a   Jeong, Won Jin ^b   Kim, Jee Hyun ^b   Lee, Sun Mee ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b GUMediherb Life Science R and D Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Agrimonia eupatoria; Alcoholic liver disease; Inflammation; Oxidative stress; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA EXTRACT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIVER PROTECTIVE AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PLANT EXTRACT; SILYMARIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AGRIMONIA; AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE GENE; INTERLEUKIN 6 GENE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA GENE; UPREGULATION;

AGRIMONIA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2E1; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSAMINASES;

AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA; ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84861425393     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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