background and objective: alleviation of serum glucose level and lipid profile in diabetic patients using herbal medications is of great importance. in the present study, the effect of oral consumption of olive leaves on serum glucose level and lipid profile was investigated. materials and methods: male wistar rats were divided into four groups including control, control under treatment, diabet...

Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia. An increase in lipid peroxidation and decrease in antioxidant activity in preeclamptic women with hypertension have been reported. The present contribution aimed to understand the effect of labour on the levels of free radicals in normotesive pregnant mothers (control group) and hypertensive preeclamptic mothers. S...

Three types of tissue samples--umbilical cord (UC), umbilical cord serum (CS), and maternal serum (MS)--have often been used to assess fetal exposure to chemicals. In order to know the relationship of contamination between mothers and fetuses, we measured persistent chemicals in comparable sets of the three tissue samples. Also, we analyzed the association between the chemicals in maternal and ...

Objectives: Fetal growth restriction is associated with chronic fetal hypoxia, poor perinatal outcome and increased mortality. There are no reliable methods to detect cell damage in the central nervous system (CNS) these patients. The findings of an acidic calcium-binding protein (S100B) concentration biological fluids infants after brain injury have supported use S100B as a biochemical marker ...

paraoxonase-1 (pon1) is a serum hdl-bound enzyme that hydrolyzes a number of aromatic carboxylic acid esters including lipid peroxides, preventing ldl oxidation. systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) patients are at greater risk of oxidative stress, which is associated with abnormal plasma lipid metabolism. in this study, association of pon-55 polymorphism with serum arylesterase (are) activities,...

To evaluate the effect of perinatal factors and sampling methods on thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid hormone levels in cord blood, serum TSH, free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3) concentrations were measured in 124 healthy term neonates. Eighty-eight infants were born in normal vaginal deliveries, 25 were delivered by vacuum extractor and 11 by Cesarean section. The...