The neuroprotective effect of berberine in mercury-induced neurotoxicity in rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 935-942

  Abdel Moneim, Ahmed E ^a  

^a HELWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Berberine; Mercuric chloride; Neuroprotection; Neurotoxicity; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BERBERINE; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; MERCURY;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MERCURY INDUCED NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BERBERINE; BRAIN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MERCURY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84943365060     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-015-9652-6     Document Type: Article

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