%0 Journal Article %T Protective Effects of Pyruvic Acid Salt Against Lithium Toxicity and Oxidative Damage in Human Blood Mononuclear Cells %A Elena Epimakhova %A Evgenii Plotnikov %A Innokenty Losenkov %A Nikolay Bohan %J Archive of "Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin". %D 2019 %R 10.15171/apb.2019.035 %X Purpose: Aim of present work was to study cytoprotective properties of lithium pyruvate, as a prospective pharmacological agent. Pyruvate has a lot of potential benefits due to positive influence on cell metabolism. Lithium is "gold-standard" mood-stabilizer. Combination of both may lead advantages %K Apoptosis %K Antioxidant %K Oxidative stress %K Lithium pyruvate %K Cytoprotection %K Mood-stabilizer %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6664125/