ANTIOXIDATIVE EFFECT OF CURCUMIN IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF AN ALBINO WISTER RAT FOLLOWING COBALT ADMINISTRATION IMPACT OF NRF2

Student: Veronica Faith Adie
Supervisor: Mr Rademene Oria
HOD: Mr C A Ogan
Department of Human Anatomy
Basic Medical Sciences
University of Cross River State, Calabar

Abstract

This study aimed at showing the Antioxidative effect of curcumin in the hippocampus of an albino wister rat following cobalt administration impact of NRF2 twenty adult albino wister rats were used for the research. Animals were allotted in four groups comprising of five rat per cage. Before termination of experiment, neurobehavioral test was carried out following by sacrifice of the animals using cervical dislocation. Tissue processing was perform using standard routinHematoxylin and Eosin (H & E) stains. Result showed that there was no decrease in body weight of curcumin when compared to the final control group body weight. Curcumin and cobalt at 50 and 240mg/kg showed a decrease in body weight when compared to the body weight in control group (p

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