2 results match your criteria: "Campus Universitaire El Manar II-2092 Tunis[Affiliation]"

Grape seed and skin extract protects kidney from doxorubicin-induced oxidative injury.

Pak J Pharm Sci

May 2016

Laboratoire des Substances Bioactives, Centre de Biotechnologie, Technopole Borj-Cedria, Hammam-Lif, Tunisie.

The study investigated the protective effect of grape seed and skin extract (GSSE) against doxorubicin-induced renal toxicity in healthy rats. Animals were treated with GSSE or not (control), for 8 days, administered with doxorubicin (20mg/kg) in the 4th day, and renal function as well as oxidative stress parameters were evaluated. Data showed that doxorubicin induced renal toxicity by affecting renal architecture and plasma creatinine.

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Hepatoprotective effect of carob against acute ethanol-induced oxidative stress in rat.

Toxicol Ind Health

September 2015

Département des Sciences Biologiques, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Fonctionnelle et Pathologies, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire El Manar II-2092 Tunis, Tunisia.

The present study was undertaken to determine whether subacute treatment with aqueous extract of carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) pods (AECPs) protects against ethanol (EtOH)-induced oxidative stress in rat liver. Animals were divided into four groups: control, carob, EtOH and EtOH + carob.

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