【Protective Effect of Lepedium sativum against 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Hepatotoxicity: An Electron Microscopic Study】

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Article by Tahani H. Dakhakhni, et al., from King Abdulaziz University (KSA), etc.

The curative and the protective effect of medicinal plants have been the point of interest of many studies. Herbicides have been considered as fast spreadable environmental pollutants, which may cause many disorders in animals and possibly in humans. The herbicide 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) is one the most commonly used synthetic herbicides throughout the world. The current study investigates the #hepatoprotective as well as the curative effect of #Lepidium_sativum (LS) water extract illustrated as the recovery in the cellular ultrastructural changes induced by 2, 4-D hepatotoxicity, monitored by the mean of electron microscopy. The results show that the LS water extract is postulated to have a significant antitoxic/antioxidant role against 2, 4-D induced hepatotoxicity, including its apoptotic effect.