The potential effect of berberine in mercury-induced hepatorenal toxicity in albino rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-181

  Othman, Mohamed S ^a   Safwat, Gehan ^a   Aboulkhair, Menna ^a   Abdel Moneim, Ahmed E ^b,c  

^a OCTOBER UNIVERSITY FOR MODERN SCIENCES AND ARTS MSA   (Egypt)

^b Helwan University   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Berberine; Kidney; Liver; Mercuric chloride; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

BERBERINE; BILIRUBIN; CATALASE; CREATININE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UREA; ANTIOXIDANT; ENZYME; PROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BERBERINE; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84899872021     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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