Objective Busulfan (BU) has a destructive effect on the male reproductive system. On the one hand, traditional herbs such as olive leaf extract (OLE) have been considered as sources of antioxidants and phenolic compounds. The goal of this study was to assess the effects of OLE on BU-induced damages in rat testes. MaterialsAndMethods In this experimental study, 40 male Wistar rats divided random...

A feeding trial of ten weeks was conducted to evaluate the effect of microbial phytase supplementation on mineral digestibility in Labeo rohita fingerlings fed on canola meal-based diets. The experiment consisted of a reference diet and a basal diet. The reference diet was prepared according to the requirements of L. rohita and was used as a standard diet. The basal diet was made by replacing 3...

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is complicated and difficult to predict. It has been observed that drugs with extensive hepatic metabolism have a higher likelihood of causing DILI. Cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes are primarily involved in hepatic metabolism. Identifying the associations of DILI with drugs that are P450 substrates, inhibitors, or inducers will be extremely helpful to clinicians ...

Several theories suggest that people do not represent race when it does not signify group boundaries. However, race is often associated with visually salient differences in skin tone and facial features. In this study, we investigated whether race could be decoded from distributed patterns of neural activity in the fusiform gyri and early visual cortex when visual features that often covary wit...

OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to investigate the hepatoprotective activity of hydro-ethanolic fruit extract of Rosa canina (R. canina) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into six groups of 8 animals of each, including control, toxic (CCl4), R. canina 250, 500, and 750 mg/kg + CCl4 ...

AIMS To compare the survival and sensorineural disability rates in extremely low birthweight (ELBW) (500-999 g) infants born in 1991-2 with ELBW babies born in 1979-80 and 1985-7, and with normal birthweight infants born in the same time periods. METHODS ELBW infants born in Victoria in 1991-2 were compared with regional cohorts of ELBW infants born in 1979-80 and 1985-7, and with contemporan...

Vitamin D and calcium are being evaluated as potential breast cancer prevention agents. This study reports on the relation of dietary vitamin D and calcium to mammographic breast densities, one of the strongest breast cancer risk factors. Participants were women ages 40 to 60 years who had had a screening mammogram in Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts (1989-1990). Diet was assessed by semi...

We study the inelastic excitations of Xe for electrons with relatively high energies (500 or 750 eV) scattered over large angles, both experimentally and theoretically. In particular, we focus on the shape and intensity of the spectra of inelastically scattered electrons at the sharp dip in the elastic cross section near 135◦ at 750 eV. Under these conditions, the first Born approximation predi...