Ameliorative potential of alpha-ketoglutaric acid (AKG) on acute lung injuries induced by ammonia inhalation in rats

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 435-444

  Ali, Rashid ^a   Mittal, Gaurav ^a   Sultana, Sarwat ^b   Bhatnagar, Aseem ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Alpha ketoglutarate; Ammonia; BAL fluid; Histopathology; Inhalation; Nebulization

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CATALASE; CHOLESTANOL; CITRATE SODIUM; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UREA;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AEROSOL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHALATION; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG FLUID; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NEBULIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; LUNG; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84867951999     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: 15210499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01902148.2012.721859     Document Type: Article

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