Antioxidant and antiapoptotic effects of capsaicin against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 428-438

  Hassan, Memy H ^a,c   Edfawy, Mohamed ^b   Mansour, Ahmed ^c   Hamed, Abdel Aziz ^c  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Egyptian Russian University   (Egypt)

^c Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

capsaicin; Carbon tetrachloride

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CAPSAICIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; CORN OIL; EOSIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEMATOXYLIN; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CAPSAICIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861548350     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233711413801     Document Type: Article

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