Genetic toxicology evaluation of essential oil of Alpinia zerumbet and its chemoprotective effects against H2O2-induced DNA damage in cultured human leukocytes

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4051-4061

  Cavalcanti, Bruno C ^a   Ferreira, José R O ^a   Cabral, Igor O ^a   Magalhães, Hemerson I F ^a   de Oliveira, Cecília C ^a   Rodrigues, Felipe A R ^a   Rocha, Danilo D ^a   Barros, Francisco W A ^a   da Silva, Cecília R ^a   Júnior, Hélio V N ^a   Canuto, Kirley M ^b   Silveira, Edilberto R ^a   Pessoa, Cláudia ^a   Moraes, Manoel O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA AGROINDÚSTRIA TROPICAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alpinia zerumbet; Antimutagenesis; Antioxidative actions; Chemoprevention

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

ALPINIA; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEUKOCYTES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

ALPINIA ZERUMBET; MUS;

EID: 84866292863     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.03.038     Document Type: Article

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