Objective: To evaluate whether treatment with L-arginine influences the healing of skin flaps in rats exposed to nicotine. Methods: 40 male Wistar rats weighing 142.4 ± 10.1 g were separated into four groups: GC: treatment with 7.4 pH phosphate buffer, submitted to skin flap and observation for ten days; GN: exposure to nicotine for four weeks, submitted to skin flap and observation for ten day...

Introduction. Sarcopenia is a process characterized by reduction in protein mass and muscle strength with increasing age, especially in the postmenopausal period, resulting in functional limitations and with great impact on the physical autonomy of the elderly. Objective. To evaluate the effects of diets with vegetable proteins (VP) or animal proteins (AP) associated with resistance training (R...

PURPOSE Thermal injury causes catabolic processes as the body attempts to repair the damaged area. This study evaluated the effects of a scald injury on the morphology of muscle fibers belonging to a muscle distant from the lesion. METHODS Thirty Wistar rats were divided into control (C) and scalded (S) groups. Group S was scalded over 45% of the body surface, standardized by body weight. Rat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether treatment with L-arginine influences the healing of skin flaps in rats exposed to nicotine. METHODS 40 male Wistar rats weighing 142.4 ± 10.1 g were separated into four groups: GC: treatment with 7.4 pH phosphate buffer, submitted to skin flap and observation for ten days; GN: exposure to nicotine for four weeks, submitted to skin flap and observation for ten day...

Objective: To investigate the possible effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) treatment on rat diabetes-induced liver damage and immune reactivity asprosin hormone in liver. Material-Method: Twenty-eight Wistar albino male rats were used study. They separated into 4 groups as Control (n=7), Diabetes Diabetes+NAC NAC (n=7). The all dissected after treatment, tissues taken for pathological examination....

Dr. Kosaku Nitta, Department of Medicine, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women’s Medical College, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Tokyo 162 (Japan) Dear Sir, Membranous lipodystrophy is the name previously given by Nasu et al. [1] to a rare disease in which cyst-lesions of adipose tissue, including that of long bones, occur together with sudanophilic leukoencephalopa-thy. This disease has recently been recognized as her...

Background: Spleen plays a role in human immune system as well recycling and filtering blood. The aging spleen is associated with fibrosis impaired system, increasing individual vulnerability to getting infections. Regular physical activity essential maintain enhance body fitness, endurance, system.Objective: This study aimed investigate the effects of mild moderate-intensity treadmill exercise...

BACKGROUND Since the first introduction of Papanicolaou (Pap) stain in 1942 there have been many modifications. Of these, the Ultra-Fast Pap stain has become popular. This technique was further modified in India as many of the reagents were not available in our country. Our study was conducted by adapting this modified staining technique which involves the replacement of Gill's hematoxylin with...

We found that the dye nile red, 9-diethylamino-5H-benzo[alpha]phenoxazine-5-one, can be applied as a fluorescent vital stain for the detection of intracellular lipid droplets by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytofluorometry (J. Cell. Biol. 1985. 100: 965-973). To understand the selectivity of the staining, we examined the fluorescence properties of nile red in the presence of organic solvent...