Alpha lipoic acid (ALA) modulates expression of apoptosis associated proteins in hippocampus of rats exposed during postnatal period to sodium arsenite (NaAsO2)

Toxicology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-87

  Dixit, Shilpi ^a   Dhar, Pushpa ^a   Mehra, Raj D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic (iAs); Bax; Bcl 2; Hippocampus; Oxidative stress; Lipoic acid (ALA)

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; THIOCTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DRUG EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LD 50; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRATUM ORIENS; STRATUM PYRAMIDALE; STRATUM RADIATUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84924326331     PISSN: 22147500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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