International Journal of
Nutrition and Metabolism

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Nutr. Metab.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2332
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJNAM
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 128

Full Length Research Paper

Comparision between the effects of dietary suplements of sun dried or sulfur fumigated apricots on the telomerase activity and oxidatıve stress parameters in azoxymethane administered rats

Aysun Bay Karabulut*
  • Aysun Bay Karabulut*
  • Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, ?nönu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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Dinçer Özgör
  • Dinçer Özgör
  • Department of General Surgery, ?nönu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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Simay Gürocak
  • Simay Gürocak
  • Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, ?nonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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Nese Karadag
  • Nese Karadag
  • Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, ?nonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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Onder Otlu
  • Onder Otlu
  • Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, ?nonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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Cemil Colak
  • Cemil Colak
  • Department of Bioistatistics, Faculty of Medicine, ?nonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
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  •  Received: 22 April 2014
  •  Accepted: 31 October 2014
  •  Published: 30 November 2014

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