Hawthorn fruit extract elevates expression of Nrf2/HO-1 and improves lipid profiles in ovariectomized rats

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Yoo, Jeong Hyun ^a   Liu, Yanan ^a   Kim, Hyun Sook ^a  

^a Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Glutathione peroxidase; Hawthorn extract; Heme oxygenase 1; Nuclear factor erythroid 2 related factor; Ovariectomized; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CRATAEGUS EXTRACT; ESTRADIOL; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MALONALDEHYDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HEME OXYGENASE; HMOX1 PROTEIN, RAT; LIPID; NFE2L2 PROTEIN, RAT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARIECTOMY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CRATAEGUS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRATAEGUS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); LIPIDS; LIVER; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84969256174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8050283     Document Type: Article

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