Nigella sativa and its main constituent, thymoquinone protect against glycerol-induced acute kidney injury in rats

• Main Authors: Elham Naderi (Author), Abolfazl Khajavi Rad (Author), Somayeh Nazari (Author), Majid Khazaei (Author), Samira Shahraki (Author), Sara Hosseinian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Rhabdomyolysis is a life-threatening disease caused by releasing myoglobin from injured myocytes, which results in acute kidney injury. In this study, the effect of aqueous-alcoholic extract of Nigella sativa (NS) and thymoquinone (TQ) on rhabdomyolysis-induced kidney damage in rats was i...