| ABSTRACT : |
There is sound evidence that cigarette smoking represents a major risk factor causing oxidative stress leads to cancer at various site and many other chronic degenerative diseases. To have an understanding about this we studied the biochemical, immunological and haematological changes accompanying cigarette smoke induced stress in mice and this in turn is followed by treatment with Oscillatoria willei extract. The overall results revealed some stress related pathological changes in the mice model exposed to cigarette smoke. Interestingly some of the cigarette smoke induced stress changes were brought back to normal when Oscillatoria willei extract was given to the cigarette smoke exposed mice.
Keywords: Oscillatoria willei, cigarette smoke |
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