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Antioxidant Effect of Cytisus Scoparius against Carbon Tetrachloride Treated iver injury in Rats

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Title Antioxidant Effect of Cytisus Scoparius against Carbon Tetrachloride
Treated iver injury in Rats
 
Creator Raja, S.
Nazeer Ahamed, K F H
Kumara, V
Mukherjee, Kakali
Bandyopadhyay , Arun
Mukherjee, Pulok K
 
Subject Cell Biology & Physiology
 
Description The study was aimed to investigate the antioxidant activity of Cytisus scoparius L. (Family: Leguminosae) on CCl4 (carbon tetrachloride) treated
oxidative stress in Wistar albino rats. CCl4 injection induced oxidative stress by a significant rise in serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminases
(SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate transaminases (SGPT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS)
along with reduction of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione-stransferase
(GST) and glutathione reductase (GRD). Pretreatment of rats with different doses of plant extract (250 and 500 mg/kg) significantly
lowered SGOT, SGPT, LDH and TBARS levels against CCl4 treated rats. GSH and hepatic enzymes like SOD, CAT, GPx, GRD, and GST were
significantly increased by treatment with the plant extract, against CCl4 treated rats. The activity of extract at the dose of 500 mg/kg was comparable
to the standard drug, silymarin (25 mg/kg). Based on these results, it was observed that Cytisus scoparius extract protects liver from oxidative stress
induced by CCl4 in rats and thus helps in evaluation of the traditional claim on this plant.
© 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2007
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1409/1/OURNAL_OF_ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY___109_(1)_41%2D47;2007[125].pdf
Raja, S. and Nazeer Ahamed, K F H and Kumara, V and Mukherjee, Kakali and Bandyopadhyay , Arun and Mukherjee, Pulok K (2007) Antioxidant Effect of Cytisus Scoparius against Carbon Tetrachloride Treated iver injury in Rats. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 109 (1). pp. 41-47.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2006.06.012
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1409/