ba ckground: liver cancer is one of the deadly cancers with high prevalence in the east asia. likewise most of diseases, herbs and herbal medicine could be an easy and cost effective tool in prevention and possible cancer treatment. the present study investigated the ability of orthosiphon stamineus benth decoction to protect liver against hepatocellular carcinoma in carcinogenesis-induced anim...

conclusions erα expression in liver was inversely correlated with liver fibrosis among patients infected with chronic hcv genotype 1b. patients and methods all the consecutive patients who received the same standard treatment protocol for hcv genotype 1b were subdivided into two subgroups according to their fibrosis scores as fibrotic stages < 2 in mild fibrosis group and fibrotic stages ≥ 2 in...

conclusions twelve weeks of two grams of ginger supplementation showed beneficial effects on some nafld characteristics. further studies are recommended to assess the long-term supplementation effects. results ginger supplementation resulted in a significant reduction in alanine aminotransferase, γ-glutamyl transferase, inflammatory cytokines, as well as the insulin resistance index and hepatic...

background: paraquat is nonselective bipyridyl herbicide that induces hepatotoxicity through oxidative stress. vitamin c and chitosan have antioxidant as well as radical scavenger properties and show protective effects against reactive oxygen species (ros). in the present study, hepatoprotective effects of chitosan and vitamin c were evaluated in common carp exposed to paraquat. methods: while ...

results abnormal liver function test was detected in cf patients. as well, liver sonogram was abnormal in approximately one-third of the patients. this study showed a higher prevalence of biochemical abnormality in patients with abnormal livers ultrasonography. conclusions noninvasive paraclinical evaluation methods could be recommended in the patients with cf for early detection of silent live...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of the baseline status of patients with hepatitis B virus-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure on short-term outcomes. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted that included a total of 138 patients with hepatitis B virus-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of M...

5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is the universal precursor for tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and is synthesized in plants in three enzymatic steps: ligation of glutamate (Glu) to tRNA(Glu) by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, reduction of activated Glu to Glu-1-semialdehyde by glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GluTR), and transamination to ALA by Glu 1-semialdehyde aminotransferase. ALA formation controls the metabolic...

The aim of the present study was to investigate nutritional and metabolic parameters during the dry and early postpartum periods of ovulatory and anovulatory cows, as well as their postpartum reproductive performance. Blood samples from 20 multiparous Holstein cows were collected once a week from the far-off dry period to 3 weeks postpartum. Early postpartum (0-3 weeks) ovulation was confirmed ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the electrocardiographic changes and their associations with metabolic and electrolytic changes in female alcoholics. METHODS The study comprised 44 female alcoholics with no apparent physical disorder. They underwent the following examinations: conventional electrocardiography; serologic tests for syphilis, Chagas' disease, and hepatitis B and C viruses; urinary pregnan...

Cadmium (Cd) is widely used in some industries and emitted from fossil fuels. It a heavy metal with number of side effects, including hepatotoxicity. Resveratrol (Rs) considered an important polyphenol, which secondary plant metabolite has the ability to scavenge free radicals. The study was designed evaluate effects resveratrol on Cd, induced hepatotoxicity, by assessment histopathological bio...