BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Dengue fever is one of the most common tropical diseases worldwide. Early diagnosis of dengue helps in patient triage and timely management of dengue virus infection.This study was undertaken to note the early clinical features supported by detection of NS1 antigen for diagnosis of dengue virus infection. METHODOLOGY In this study a total of 100 adult patients presen...

In modern era, plant extracts are being used extensively as a source of medicinal agents. However, there is limited data available about the toxicity of herbal products used in remedies, are essential for the study of toxicity profile of medicinal plants. Therefore, aim of this study was to observe the biochemical and histopathological changes in liver due to acute oral toxicity of aqueous leaf...

BACKGROUND Lawsonia inermis (Lythraceae) is an ethnomedicinal plant, traditionally known for curing several ailments such as skin diseases, bacterial infections, jaundice, renal lithiases and inflammation etc. The present work deals with assessment of in vitro antioxidant and in vivo hepatoprotective potential of butanolic fraction (But-LI) of Lawsonia inermis L. leaves. METHODS Antioxidant a...

Pet Ether, Chloroform, and Methanol extracts of roots of Blue and White flowered varieties of Clitoria ternatea (CT) were studied for their hepatoprotective potential against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced hepatotoxicity in rats. The hepatoprotective activity was assessed using various biochemical parameters like serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate tr...

Mechanisms of interleukin-18 (IL-18) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced endotoxemia are not clear; their protective role is being investigated so that they may effectively modulate the host cytokine levels during endotoxemia. The aim of the study was to evaluate protective effects of IL-18 and IL-10 in experimentally induced endotoxemia in mice correlating the change...

Jia-wei-xiao-yao-san (JWXYS) is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine that is widely used to treat neuropsychological disorders. Only a few of the hepatoprotective effects of JWXYS have been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of JWXYS on dimethylnitrosamine- (DMN-) induced chronic hepatitis and hepatic fibrosis in rats and to clarify the mechanism thr...

AIM This study was planned to reveal the clinical signs and biochemical alterations in pregnancy toxemic goats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Blood samples were collected from 20 healthy pregnant and 45 pregnancy toxemic goats and analyzed biochemically. RESULTS The most significant clinical findings were observed in naturally affected goats with pregnancy toxemia included anorexia, recumbency, let...

CONTEXT Renal transplantation is the definitive treatment in renal failure patients. Liver disease is a known problem in renal transplant recipients. They may be consequent to immunosuppression, drug toxicity, altered immune response to viruses and hemodialysis. AIMS The aim of this study was to analyze and correlate the biochemical parameters and histopathology of liver biopsy among renal tr...

Indonesian culture actually has no historical record of behaviors in consuming alcohol, but there are many recent reports of alcohol abuse among Asian people involving their traditional drink. In genotype studies, the damage of the liver caused by consuming alcohol is influenced by the presence of the polymorphism enzyme gene. The lack of study regarding such topic is a signal to further invest...

OBJECTIVE Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of diabetic complications including metabolic abnormality-induced diabetic micro-vascular and macro-vascular complications. Urtica dioica L. (U. dioica) has been traditionally used in Iranian medicine as an herbal remedy for hypoglycemic or due to its anti-inflammatory properties. The aim of the present study was to evaluate ...