Amelioration of carbon tetrachloride-induced pulmonary toxicity with Oxalis corniculata

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1243-1251

  Ahmad, Bushra ^a   Khan, Muhammad Rashid ^a   Shah, Naseer Ali ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

antioxidant enzymes; carbon tetrachloride; histopathology; lipid peroxidation; lungs; Oxalis corniculata

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CATALASE; FREE RADICAL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OXALIS CORNICULATA EXTRACT; PEROXIDASE; PLANT EXTRACT; SILYMARIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG HOMOGENATE; LUNG TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXALIS CORNICULATA; RAT; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE POISONING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG CIRCULATION; METABOLISM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OXALIDACEAE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RANDOMIZATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE POISONING; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG; OXALIDACEAE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PAKISTAN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

EID: 84948649435     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233713487245     Document Type: Article

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