Curcumin ameliorates experimental autoimmune acute myocarditis in rats as evidenced by decrease in thioredoxin immunoreactivity

Folia Morphologica (Poland)

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 318-324

  Ahmed, A M ^a   El Fouhil, A F ^a   Mohamed, R A ^a,b   Atteya, M ^a,b   Abdel Baky, N A ^c   AlRoalle, A H ^a   Aldahmash, A M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Acute myocarditis; Curcumin; Immunohistochemistry; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941774651     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: 16443284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/FM.2015.0048     Document Type: Article

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