Melanin, a promising radioprotector: Mechanisms of actions in a mice model

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-211

  Kunwar, A ^a   Adhikary, B ^a   Jayakumar, S ^a   Barik, A ^a   Chattopadhyay, S ^a   Raghukumar, S ^b   Priyadarsini, K I ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Myko Tech Private Limited   (India)

Author keywords

Radiation; Apoptosis; MAPKs; Melanin; Radioprotection; Spleen

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; CYCLINE; MELANIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN KINASE B; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGUS; GAMMA RADIATION; GLIOCEPHALOTRICHUM SIMPLEX; HEMATOPOIETIC PARAMETER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SPLEEN; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA DAMAGE; GAMMA RAYS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HYPOCREALES; IMMUNITY; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL;

FUNGI; GLIOCEPHALOTRICHUM; MUS;

EID: 84866878962     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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