Phytochemical, antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of Alnus nitida bark in carbon tetrachloride challenged Sprague Dawley rats

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sajid, Moniba ^a   Khan, Muhammad Rashid ^a   Shah, Naseer Ali ^b   Shah, Sayed Afzal ^a   Ismail, Hammad ^c   Younis, Tahira ^a   Zahra, Zartash ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Biosciences ^*  (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Alnus nitida; Antioxidant; Flavonoids; Hepatoprotective; HPLC; Phenolics

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALOID; ALNUS NITIDA EXTRACT; ANTHOCYANIN; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETACYANIN; CATALASE; CATECHIN; CHLOROFORM; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITRITE; PEROXIDASE; PEROXIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; RUTOSIDE; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALDER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALNUS NITIDA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASSAY; BARK; BETA CAROTENE BLEACHING ASSAY; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE-INDUCED LIVER FIBROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DPPH RADICAL SCAVENGING ASSAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDROXYL RADICAL SCAVENGING ASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; IRON CHELATION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASSAY; NITRIC OXIDE SCAVENGING ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOMOLYBDENUM ASSAY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REDUCING POWER ASSAY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; LIVER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOLOGY; TOXIC HEPATITIS;

ALNUS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHEMICAL AND DRUG INDUCED LIVER INJURY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; LIVER; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84982719974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1245-3     Document Type: Article

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