Thymoquinone ameliorates lead-induced brain damage in Sprague Dawley rats

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-17

  Radad, Khaled ^a   Hassanein, Khaled ^a   Al Shraim, Mubarak ^b   Moldzio, Rudolf ^c   Rausch, Wolf Dieter ^c  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lead; Neuroprotection; Neurotoxicity; Pathology; Thymoquinone

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; DRINKING WATER; LEAD ACETATE; THYMOQUINONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLACK CUMIN; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHROMATOLYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEURONOPHAGY; NONHUMAN; PERIVASCULAR CUFF; PLANT SEED; RAT; RISK REDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STOMACH TUBE; TREATMENT DURATION;

NIGELLA SATIVA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

LEAD; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; PATHOLOGY; THYMOQUINONE;

ANIMALS; BENZOQUINONES; BRAIN; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84888855243     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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