Dietary Supplementation of Blueberry Juice Enhances Hepatic Expression of Metallothionein and Attenuates Liver Fibrosis in Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yuping ^a   Cheng, Mingliang ^a   Zhang, Baofang ^a   Nie, Fei ^b   Jiang, Hongmei ^a  

^a GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guizhou Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CHINESE DRUG; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; DAN SHAO HUA XIAN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MALONALDEHYDE; METALLOTHIONEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUEBERRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT JUICE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID DIET; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BEVERAGES; BLUEBERRY PLANT; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE III; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; METALLOTHIONEIN; RATS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84874912882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058659     Document Type: Article

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