Antioxidant activity and protective effect of Turnera ulmifolia Linn. var. elegans against carbon tetrachloride-induced oxidative damage in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4340-4347

  Brito, Naira J N ^a   López, Jorge A ^b   Nascimento, Maria Aparecida do ^a   Macêdo, José B M ^a   Silva, Gabriel Araujo ^a   Oliveira, Cláudia N ^a   de Rezende, Adriana Augusto ^a   Brandão Neto, José ^a   Schwarz, Aline ^a   Almeida, Maria das Graças ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b TIRADENTES UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Hepatic damage; Turnera ulmifolia Linn. var. elegans

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CATALASE; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; PLANT EXTRACT; SCAVENGER; SILYMARIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TURNERA ULMIFOLIA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; RAT; TURNERA; TURNERA ULMIFOLIA;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CATALASE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TURNERA;

RATTUS; TURNERA ULMIFOLIA;

EID: 84867089224     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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