Environmental pollution and kidney diseases

X Xu, S Nie, H Ding, FF Hou - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2018 - nature.com
The burden of disease and death attributable to environmental pollution is becoming a
public health challenge worldwide, especially in developing countries. The kidney is …

Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: car sick

MR Miller, DE Newby - Cardiovascular research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The cardiovascular effects of inhaled particle matter (PM) are responsible for a substantial
morbidity and mortality attributed to air pollution. Ultrafine particles, like those in diesel …

Ambient air pollution and thrombosis

S Robertson, MR Miller - Particle and fibre toxicology, 2018 - Springer
Air pollution is a growing public health concern of global significance. Acute and chronic
exposure is known to impair cardiovascular function, exacerbate disease and increase …

Platinum-based combination therapy: molecular rationale, current clinical uses, and future perspectives

C Yu, Z Wang, Z Sun, L Zhang, W Zhang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Platinum drugs are common in chemotherapy, but their clinical applications have been
limited due to drug resistance and severe toxic effects. The combination of platinum drugs …

The neuroprotective effects of thymoquinone: a review

T Farkhondeh, S Samarghandian… - Dose …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Thymoquinone (TQ), one of the main components active of Nigella sativa, exhibited very
useful biomedical effects such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiparasitic …

[HTML][HTML] Black seed (Nigella sativa) and its constituent thymoquinone as an antidote or a protective agent against natural or chemical toxicities

A Tavakkoli, A Ahmadi, BM Razavi… - Iranian journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Nigella sativa (N. sativa), which belongs to the botanical family of Ranunculaceae,
is a widely used medicinal plant all over the world. N. sativa seeds and oil have been used …

[HTML][HTML] Prolonged pulmonary exposure to diesel exhaust particles exacerbates renal oxidative stress, inflammation and DNA damage in mice with adenine-induced …

A Nemmar, T Karaca, S Beegam, P Yuvaraju… - Cellular Physiology and …, 2016 - karger.com
Background/Aims: Epidemiological evidence indicates that patients with chronic kidney
diseases have increased susceptibility to adverse outcomes related to long-term exposure …

Thymoquinone and curcumin combination protects cisplatin-induced kidney injury, nephrotoxicity by attenuating NFκB, KIM-1 and ameliorating Nrf2/HO-1 signalling

M Al Fayi, H Otifi, M Alshyarba, AA Dera… - Journal of Drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study evaluates the protective effects of Thymoquinone (Tq) and Curcumin (Cur) in
models of cisplatin-induced renal toxicity. Proliferation studies were carried out in HEK-293 …

A review on possible therapeutic effect of Nigella sativa and thymoquinone in neurodegenerative diseases

S Samarghandian, T Farkhondeh… - CNS & Neurological …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background & Objective: Medicinal plants have attracted great attention in the recent years
and is increasingly applied instead of the chemical drugs. Several documents showed that …

Antioxidant phytochemicals for the prevention of fluoride-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis: A review

LM Angwa, Y Jiang, J Pei, D Sun - Biological Trace Element Research, 2022 - Springer
Fluorosis is a major public health problem globally. The non-availability of specific treatment
and the irreversible nature of dental and skeletal lesions poses a challenge in the …