Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an important cause of decreased visual acuity, whose prevalence has increased between 1990 and 2020. In Chile the diabetic was estimated at 24.8%.

a 35 year old diver comes to your office. he had hyperglycemia in his last check up. he asks if he can steel dive in spite of hyperglycemia. we reviewed the recent studies about diabetic persons who dive. recent studies have shown that well controlled diabetic persons may be permitted to dive, but if they have any problem such as diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, neurological and cardiac probl...

protein amyloid beta (a?), as the pathologic hallmark of alzheimer disease (ad), increases in the brain of diabetic patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 6 weeks of voluntary wheel running combined with allium paradoxum extract on cortex amyloid beta (a?1-42) levels in diabetic rats induced with alloxan. for this purpose, 42 male wistar rats (weight 185+1 gr, 8 weeks ...

the aqueous extract of syzygium cumini (pulp) was investigated for its possible hypoglycemic and antioxidant potentials in streptozotocin (stz) induced diabetic wistar female rats. a single intraperitoneal injection of stz at a dose of 55 mg/kg body weight elevated the glucose levels more than 230 mg/dl after 3 days. treatment with the aqueous extract of syzygium cumini (pulp) at 100 mg/kg and ...

background boswellia serrata has been used in a wide variety of diseases, including diabetes mellitus and inflammatory diseases. objectives this study focused on the effects of boswellia serrata aqueous extract on blood glucose and the complications of diabetes in the liver and kidneys and examined the impact of plant on reproduction in diabetic rats. materials and methods the antioxidant capac...

the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of melatonin as an antioxidant on spatial navigation memory in male diabetic rats. thirty-two male white wistar rats weighing 200 ± 20 g were divided into four groups, randomly: control, melatonin, diabetic and melatonin-treated diabetic. experimental diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal injection of 50 mg kg-1 streptozotocin. melatonin...

angiotensin-converting enzyme (ace) inhibitors including quinapril could exert a protective effect on cardiovascular system through endothelial system in normoglycemic and diabetic rats. the present experimental work was designed to study the vascular reactivity of aortic ring segments isolated from streptozotocin (stz)-diabetic rats treated for 4 weeks with nitro-l-arginine-methyl ester (l-nam...

diabetic retinopathy is the lead among causes of blindness in north america. glucose-induced endothelial injury is the most important cause of diabetic retinopathy and other vascular complications. extracellular signal-regulated kinase 5 (erk5), also known as big mitogen-activated protein kinase 1 (bmk1), is a member of mitogen-activated protein kinases (mapk) family. physiologically, it is cri...

the present study was aimed to evaluate the therapeutic potential of pimpinella tirupatiensis (pt) by assaying the activities of selective mitochondrial enzymes in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. diabetic rats showed a significant (p < 0.01) reduction in the activities of oxidative enzymes succinate dehydrogenase (sdh), malate dehydrogenase (mdh), glutamate dehydrogenase (gdh) and isocitr...