Pomegranate from oman alleviates the brain oxidative damage in transgenic mouse model of alzheimer′s disease

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 232-238

  Subash, Selvaraju ^a   Essa, Musthafa ^a,b   Al Asmi, Abdullah ^a   Al Adawi, Samir ^a   Vaishnav, Ragini ^a   Braidy, Nady ^c   Manivasagam, Thamilarasan ^d   Guillemin, Gilles ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; antioxidant; Oman; Oxidative stress; Pomegranate; Tg2576 mouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908399641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2225-4110.139107     Document Type: Article

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