The Preventive Effect of Atorvastatin on Paraquat-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in the Rats [PDF]
Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2014 Purpose: Pulmonary fibrosis is a potentially lethal inflammatory disease and there has been no effective medication for this progressive disease up to now.
Mohammad Javad Khodayar +6 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 Lolium perenne L. spp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot (LOLMU) is a winter annual weed, common to row crops, orchards and roadsides. Glyphosate-resistant populations of LOLMU are widespread in California.
Caio A. C. G. Brunharo +1 more
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Adiponectin protects against paraquat-induced lung injury by attenuating oxidative/nitrative stress. [PDF]
, 2014 The specific mechanisms underlying paraquat (PQ)-induced lung injury remain unknown, which limits understanding of its cytotoxic potential. Although oxidative stress has been established as an important mechanism underlying PQ toxicity, multiple ...
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Elimination of young erythrocytes from blood circulation and altered erythropoietic patterns during paraquat induced anemic phase in mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Paraquat a widely used herbicide causes a variety of toxic effects on humans and animals. The present study is focused on the interaction of paraquat with the mouse erythroid system. Administration of paraquat (10 mg/kg body weight i.p. on alternate days
Nitin Bhardwaj, Rajiv K Saxena
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Environmental Exposures and Parkinson's Disease. [PDF]
, 2016 Parkinson's disease (PD) affects millions around the world. The Braak hypothesis proposes that in PD a pathologic agent may penetrate the nervous system via the olfactory bulb, gut, or both and spreads throughout the nervous system. The agent is unknown,
Litvan, Irene, Nandipati, Sirisha
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Primary and secondary oxidative stress in Bacillus [PDF]
, 2011 Coping with oxidative stress originating from oxidizing compounds or reactive oxygen species (ROS), associated with the exposure to agents that cause environmental stresses, is one of the prerequisites for an aerobic lifestyle of Bacillus spp. such as B.
Abee, T., Mols, J.M.
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Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)-mimetic M40403 is protective in cell and fly models of paraquat toxicity: Implications for Parkinson disease [PDF]
, 2016 Parkinson disease is a debilitating and incurable neurodegenerative disorder affecting 3c1-2% of people over 65 years of age. Oxidative damage is considered to play a central role in the progression of Parkinson disease and strong evidence links chronic
Beltramini, Mariano +8 more
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Agronomy, 2012 Greenhouse and field studies were conducted in 2007 and 2008 to investigate possible multiple-resistance of horseweed to paraquat and glyphosate, and to evaluate the effect of the addition of metribuzin to paraquat on control of paraquat-resistant ...
Daniel H. Poston +3 more
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A Powerful New Quantitative Genetics Platform, Combining Caenorhabditis elegans High-Throughput Fitness Assays with a Large Collection of Recombinant Strains. [PDF]
, 2015 The genetic variants underlying complex traits are often elusive even in powerful model organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans with controlled genetic backgrounds and environmental conditions.
Andersen, Erik C +7 more
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Single copy/knock-in models of ALS SOD1 in C. elegans suggest loss and gain of function have different contributions to cholinergic and glutamatergic neurodegeneration [PDF]
, 2018 Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) lead to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that disproportionately affects glutamatergic and cholinergic motor neurons.
Baskoylu, Saba N +10 more
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