The rats listed here have been extensively studied as animal models of diabetic complications and their pathogenesis. The results of studies with the SHROB, JCR:LAcp and OLETF rats are instructive in understanding macro vascular diseases. The Cohen, GK, SHROB and OLETF rats are model of diabetic kidney disease. The SHROB rat might also be useful for diabetic retinopathy study. The importance of...

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) has been demonstrated by immunofluorescence histochemistry in nerves in human and rat penile tissue. A reduction in VIP-like immunoreactivity in nerves was revealed in tissue from streptozotocin-diabetic rats and a human diabetic with impotence. These results suggest that an impairment in the VIP-ergic innervation in penile tissue may be an important fact...

The changes in sensitivity of the rat stomach fundus to acetylcholine (ACh), norepinephrine (NE), isoproterenol (ISO) and to vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) were examined in control rats and in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. The dose-response curves for drugs were constructed 8 weeks after treatment with STZ. The dose-response curve for ACh in diabetic rats was shifted to the l...

objective(s):diabetic nephropathy is an important long-term complication of diabetes mellitus which appears to be partially mediated by an increase in secretion of transforming growth factor-β (tgf-β). fibromodulin, the small leucine-rich proteoglycan, has been proposed to be the potent tgfβ1 modulator. in this study, the therapeutic effects of recombinant adenoviral vectors expressing fibromod...

Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of complications in diabetes mellitus. Antioxidant therapy has been thought to decrease oxidative stress. The objective of the present study was to explore the effects of melatonin (MLT) on oxidative stress in diabetic rat eye and brain tissue by using immunohistochemical methods. Diabetes was induced by streptozotocin, (STZ, 55 mg/kg/...

In the area of drug discovery, repurposing strategies represent an approach to discover new uses approved drugs besides their original indications. We used this investigate effects dimethyl fumarate (DMF), a for relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis and psoriasis treatment, on early injury associated with diabetic retinopathy (DR). in vivo streptozotocin (STZ)-induced rat model. Diabetes was i...

Benfotiamine has shown therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy in human beings. However, so far there is no evidence about the efficacy of this drug in preclinical models of pain. The purpose of this study was to assess the possible antinociceptive and antiallodynic effect of benfotiamine in inflammatory and neuropathic pain models in the rat. Inflammatory pain was ...

  Background: Quercetin is a strong antioxidant and long-term treatment of STZ-diabetic animals and it has been shown to reduce oxidative stress.   Objective: antioxidants have essential effect on spermatogenesis and sperm parameters. Enhanced oxidative stress and changes in antioxidant capacity are considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic diabetes mellitus.   Methods...