Protective effects of total flavonoids from epimedium on the male mouse reproductive system against cyclophosphamide-induced oxidative injury by up-regulating the expressions of SOD3 and GPX1

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-97

  Yuan, Ding ^a   Wang, Hongwu ^a   He, Haibo ^a   Jia, Liangliang ^b   He, Yumin ^a   Wang, Ting ^a   Zeng, Xiao ^a   Li, Yuzhou ^a   Li, Shouchao ^a   Zhang, Changcheng ^a  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yichang First People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cyclophosphamide; male reproductive problems; oxidative stress; testicular and spermatozoal toxicity; total flavonoids from Epimedium

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EXTRACELLULAR SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FLAVANOID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 1; MALONALDEHYDE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TOTAL FLAVANOIDS OF EPIMEDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMAL WEIGHT; EPIMEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; EPIMEDIUM; MUS;

APOPTOSIS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MALE REPRODUCTIVE PROBLEMS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TESTICULAR AND SPERMATOZOAL TOXICITY; TOTAL FLAVONOIDS FROM EPIMEDIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIMEDIUM; FLAVONOIDS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84892440751     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.4956     Document Type: Article

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