Carnosine reduces oxidative stress and reverses attenuation of righting and postural reflexes in rats with thioacetamide- induced liver failure

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 376-384

  Milewski, Krzysztof ^a   Hilgier, Wojciech ^a   Fręśko, Inez ^a   Polowy, Rafał ^a   Podsiadłowska, Anna ^a   Zołocińska, Ewa ^a   Grymanowska, Aneta W ^a   Filipkowski, Robert K ^a   Albrecht, Jan ^a   Zielińska, Magdalena ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carnosine; Hepatic encephalopathy; Histidine; Neuroprotection; Oxidative stress; Postural reflex; Righting reflex

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CARNOSINE; CARNOSINE SYNTHASE 1; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SYNTHETASE; THIOACETAMIDE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REFLEX; ROTAROD TEST; STANDING; STARTLE REFLEX; ANIMAL; BODY POSITION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CARNOSINE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIOACETAMIDE;

EID: 84955257498     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: 15736903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-015-1821-9     Document Type: Article

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