Protective effect of nutmeg aqueous extract against experimentally-induced hepatotoxicity and oxidative stress in rats

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 216-223

  Kareem, Mohammed Abdul ^a   Gadhamsetty, Saayi Krushna ^b   Shaik, Althaf Hussain ^c   Prasad, E Maruthi ^d   Kodidhela, Lakshmi Devi ^e  

^a Departments of Biochemistry   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^e SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; isoproterenol; lipid peroxidation; marker enzymes and hepatoprotective agent

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATALASE; CREATINE KINASE; FORMALDEHYDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEMATOXYLIN; ISOPRENALINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID; LIVER ENZYME; NUTMEG EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTMEG; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 84891863826     PISSN: 09759476     EISSN: 09762809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0975-9476.123704     Document Type: Article

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