1. An 18-year-old male college freshman is referred to a gastroenterologist for evaluation of painless jaundice. He initially presented to a campus health center for evaluation of a flu-like illness with high fevers, where mild scleral icterus was noted. Initial laboratory studies revealed a normal complete blood count, normal alkaline phosphatase level, and normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT...

Background: Inhaled anesthetics are widely used drugs in health centers and hospitals. However, several side effects concerning inhalational anesthetics have been reported. Liver damage is one of the wellknown side effects of inhaled anesthetics and measurement of alkaline phosphatase and alanine aminotransferase serum level is the common method for assessing severity of these damages. Among ho...

Background: This study evaluated the effects of 1:1 mixture of aqueous root bark extracts of Anogeissus leiocarpus (DC) Guill & Perr (Combretaceae) and Terminalia avicennioides Guill & Perr (Combretaceae) in male rats. Methods: Male rats were orally administered a 1:1 mixture of both extracts (250, 500 and 1000 mg/kg body weight) for seven days. Liver and kidney function indices, haematologica...

the liver is an organ at risk (oar) in radiotherapy of thoracic and abdominal tumors such as gastric, distal esophagus, lower lung and breast, bile duct, pancreas and whole abdomen. in this study the alteration in liver functional tests (lft) of these patients during radiotherapy was investigated. to that end, the level of serum aspartate aminotransferase (ast), alanine aminotransferase (alt), ...

Aspartate aminotransferase (L-aspartate: 2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, EC 2.6.1.1, glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase, GOT) comprises two isoenzymes. One is anionic and is associated principally with the soluble fraction of the cytoplasm, the other is cationic and is associated with the mitochondria [4]. A sensitive semi quantitative assay has been developed for cationic aspartate aminotransfe...

Following major tissue injury, hyaluronic acid production increases as a rapid response survival mechanism. Increased hyaluronic acid production and turnover are often associated with increased hyaluronidase activity, the enzyme that degrades hyaluronic acid. We investigated whether hyaluronic acid and hyaluronidase can be used as non-invasive markers of acute disease activity in hepatitis C by...

background: this study was conducted to determine the efficacy of milk thistle seeds (mtss) in counteracting the toxic effects of aflatoxin b1 (afb1) in a contaminated diet fed to broilers.methods: two dietary inclusion rates of afb1 (0, 0.250 and 500 ppb) and mts (0, 0.5 and 1%) were tested in a 3×3 factorial manner. the effect of nine experimental treatments was assessed using 216 one-d-old r...

objective(s):the aim of this study was to evaluate, for the first time, whether the effects of low-dose adropin administration is effective in rats with hyperlipidemia. materials and methods: twenty one wistar albino female rats were randomly divided into 3 groups and fed with high-fat diet for 4 weeks to establish the hyperlipidemia model. meanwhile, adropin was administrated intraperitonealy ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com MOJ Toxicol (2016), 2(1): 00026 Abbreviations: RPM: Revolutions Per Minute; AST: Serum Aspartate Aminotransferase; ALT: Serum Glutamate Pyruvate Transaminase; Scr: Serum Creatinine; BUN: Blood Urea Nitrogen; C: Control; V: Venom; VC : Vitamin; VVC: Venom+Vitamin C ; TBS :Tris Buffered Saline; SOD: Superoxide Dismutase; Cat: Catalase; GSH-Px: Glutath...

Today, the organism of hens is constantly exposed to numerous technological stressors in conditions industrial poultry farming, least studied which are long-term, can cause development chronic stress. One such increased stocking density hens, also a way saving resources egg and often used by producers obtain more eggs per 1 m2 area. The aim this study was examine effect overcrowding, as factor ...