کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2499047 1116490 2012 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Efficacy of vitamin C against liver and kidney damage induced by paraquat toxicity
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Efficacy of vitamin C against liver and kidney damage induced by paraquat toxicity
چکیده انگلیسی

Paraquat has been demonstrated to be a highly toxic compound for humans and animals and many cases of acute poisoning and death have been reported over the past few decades. The current experiment aimed to examine if vitamin C (ascorbic acid) alleviates the morphological changes induced by paraquat (PQ) administration in the liver and kidney of male albino rats. Male adult rats received paraquat (PQ) (1.5 mg/kg body weight) daily for three weeks. Vitamin C (VC) at a dose of 20 mg/kg body weight was given concomitantly with PQ to rats. Animals were divided into three groups in this experiment (control, PQ and PQ + VC). The morphopathological manifestations were investigated in tissues from liver and kidney. As expected, PQ administration induced marked changes in the morphological structure of the liver and kidney in PQ demonstrated animals. Importantly, vitamin C administration restored PQ-induced changes in the studied organs. Vitamin C administration attenuated the morphological damages induced by PQ in the liver and kidney of experimental animals. Our results suggest an antitoxic effect of vitamin C against paraquat.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology - Volume 64, Issue 5, July 2012, Pages 431–434
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