The changes in antioxidant components in the blood of ten cold blood mares during pregnancy and after foaling were investigated. Mares' blood samples were collected three times: at the 6th month of pregnancy, two weeks before delivery and four weeks after foaling. The activity of superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, total antioxidant status (TAS), total bilirubin and uric acid were mea...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Imbalances between the oxidant-antioxidant status have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several diseases, including oral cancer. Mostly, all oral cancer lesions are preceded by a stage of premalignancy. The present study aims to evaluate lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in the venous blood of patients with different clinicopathologic stages of leukoplakia. M...

BACKGROUND Normal pregnancy has been associated with oxidative stress injury. Oxidative stress has been linked with poor perinatal outcome and birth asphyxia. The severity of this oxidative stress in newborn may be related to stress of different modes of delivery. METHODS Eighty seven newborn babies were recruited in both labour ward and operating theatre of Ladoke Akintola University of Tech...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of turmeric powder (trp), tomato pomace (tp), fat sources (canola oil, soybean oil and tallow) on immune system and jejunum morphometric parameters of heat stressed broiler chickens. five hundred four one-d-old ross broiler were randomly distributed to 36 experimental units and 12 dietary treatments (3 replicates with 12 birds in each). the ...

BACKGROUND In the recent years, various studies have shown a link between the free radicals, antioxidants and periodontal diseases. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the oxidative stress and the antioxidant status present in the gingival tissue and plasma of patients with chronic periodontitis and to evaluate the antioxidant property of taurine. MATERIALS AND METHODS Periodonta...

BACKGROUND An increased oxidative level and decreased antioxidant activities in the blood of preeclamptic women have been reported by us and other workers. The present study was aimed to evaluate oxidative stress in infants born to preeclamptic mothers, and to examine whether cord blood with oxygen radical disease had different total enzymatic antioxidant status than those without preeclampsia....

Objective: Cystatin C is considered an important marker for the detection of renal dysfunction. It was aimed to determine cystatin levels, status oxidant-antioxidant and inflammation in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Methods: The study groups consisted 20 HD patients healthy controls. Blood samples were obtained from control group before hemodialysis. Serum C, total antioxidant capacity (TAC), oxi...