Research Article

Prophylactic Zinc and Therapeutic Selenium Administration Increases the Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in the Rat Temporoparietal Cortex and Improves Memory after a Transient Hypoxia-Ischemia

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The combined treatment with zinc and selenium decreases the CCAO-induced nitrosative-oxidative stress in the temporoparietal cortex. (a) Nitrosative stress and (b) lipid peroxidation. CCAO: common carotid artery occlusion for 10 min; Zn + CCAO: chronic zinc administration before CCAO; Zn + CCAO + Se: chronic zinc administration before CCAO followed by selenium administration. The values were normalized against the control untreated group; nv: normalized values. Each value represents of 5 independent experiments made in triplicate. , one-way ANOVA with post hoc Dunnett’s test when compared to the control untreated group. , Student’s -test when compared with the respective CCAO group.
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