Background: The increasing occurrence of diabetes mellitus (DM) noted worldwide has considerably elicited concern in the recent past. DM is associated with elevated vascular complications, morbidity, mortality, and poor quality life. In this context, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have shown significant therapeutic potentialities managing curing type 1 owing to their self-renewable, immun...

Phyllanthus niruri extract is extensively used in treating liver ailments. Effects of aqueous extract of P. niruri on liver, kidney and testes of CCl4 induced hepatotoxic rats were studied. High levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) were observed in the CCl4 test group with significant reduction of MDA levels in all groups on P. niruri extract administration. Highest levels of glutathione (GSH) were ...

Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (Hs, roselle; Malvaceae) has been used traditionally as a food, in herbal drinks, in hot and cold beverages, as a flavouring agent in the food industry and as a herbal medicine. In vitro and in vivo studies as well as some clinical trials provide some evidence mostly for phytochemically poorly characterised Hs extracts. Extracts showed antibacterial, anti-oxidant, nephro-...

1University of Medicine “Gr T Popa” Iasi and Hospital “C. I. Parhon” Iasi, 2Hôpital Erasme, Département Médico-Chirurgical de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation, 808 Route de Lennik Brussels, Belgium, 3Huddinge University Hospital, Department of Clinical Science, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Renal Medicine, Huddinge/Stockholm, Sweden, 4University Hospital Ghent, Internal Medicine, De...

We report a case of superior vena cava (SVC) thrombosis in a patient with liver cirrhosis and peritoneovenous surgical Denver shunt, successfully treated by angioplasty. In 2005, a 75-year-old man with a criptogenetic liver cirrhosis and peritoneovenous surgical Denver shunt was admitted to our hospital for chylous ascites. Venography showed a stenosis near the junction of the SVC with the righ...

Most of the commercial poultry growers use antibiotics for growth promotion and to many disadvantages like higher rearing cost, adverse side effects on health of birds, prolonged withdrawal period and residual effects. Some plants and their extracts improve feed intake and enzymatic activity of the birds. A few of these herbs have antimicrobial, Coccidiostatic or anthelmintic effects. A study w...

Lead is a multi-organ toxicant implicated in various cancers, diseases of the hepatic, renal, and reproductive systems etc. In search of cheap and readily available antidote this study has investigated the role of activated charcoal in chronic lead exposure in albino rats. Eighteen mature male albino rats were used, divided into three groups of six rats per group. Group 1 (control rats) receive...

Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is a severe, typically early onset form of renal cystic disease. The care of ARPKD patients has traditionally been the purview of pediatric nephrologists for management of systemic hypertension and progressive renal insufficiency. However, the disease has multisystem manifestations and a comprehensive care strategy frequently requires a mult...

Received: 29/08/2014 Revised: 14/09/2014 Accepted: 15/09/2014 Abstract The present study was planned to investigate the clinical and haemato-biochemical changes in F0 male Wistar rats fed with graded doses of citrinin (CIT). The animals were divided into four groups comprising 25 rats in each, viz., group I: 1ppm CIT; group II: 3ppm CIT; group III: 5ppm CIT; and group IV: 0 ppm CIT (control). A...

Metastatic pulmonary calcification (MPC) is a rare pathological condition consisting of lung calcium salt deposits which commonly occurs in patients affected by chronic kidney disease probably for some abnormalities in calcium and phosphate metabolism. CT represents the technique of choice for detecting MPC findings including ground glass opacities and partially calcified nodules or consolidati...