Diosgenin improves vascular function by increasing aortic eNOS expression, normalize dyslipidemia and ACE activity in chronic renal failure rats

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 384, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 113-120

  Manivannan, Jeganathan ^a   Balamurugan, Elumalai ^a   Silambarasan, Thangarasu ^a   Raja, Boobalan ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme; Antioxidant; Diosgenin; Dyslipidemia; Endothelial dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENINE; DIOSGENIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING; FORCE; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOLATED ORGAN; ISOMETRICS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AORTA; DIOSGENIN; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GLUTATHIONE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; NITROPRUSSIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

EID: 84889083532     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: 15734919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-013-1788-2     Document Type: Article

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