TY - BOOK AU - Doaa Hassan Abdelnaby AU - Mohamed Taky Eldin Khayyal , AU - Mona Abdellateif Elghazaly , TI - The potential chondroprotective effect of propolis in irradiated rats / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Doaa Hassan Abdelnaby , KW - Articular cartilage KW - Propolis KW - Y-radiation N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Issued also as CD N2 - Cartilage degradation usually results as a consequence of inflammatory processes in the joint. To study this phenomenon experimentally, adjuvant-induced arthritis (AIA) was used as a model of chronic inflammation to induce arthritis in the joints of rats. The influence of irradiation on the arthritic inflammatory response was investigated by subjecting rats to a gamma source before the induction of arthritis ER -