background and objectives: sarcopenia is explained as the loss of muscle strength and muscle mass with aging‚ and is one of the major risk factors for metabolic diseases. cross-sectional studies demonstrate that vitamin d is associated with sarcopenia in both men and women. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of vitamin d supplement consumption on muscle strength, muscle functio...

background: this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of chronic exposure to imidacloprid (im) insecticide on male testicular tissue, sperm morphology and testosterone levels in the serum of mature male rats. materials and methods: animals were divided into and control-sham groups. the test group was subdivided into two groups of rats which were administered doses of 225 and 112 mg/kg im ...

We examined the effect of angiotensin I (AI), without the effect of angiotensin II (AII) converted from AI, on the weight of the adrenal glands, adrenal corticosterone (B) and adrenal aldosterone under conditions where the renin-angiotensin system was suppressed, since a reduction in the size of the adrenal glands is often observed in DOCA/salt hypertensive rats. Sixty male Wistar rats fed on a...

Keeping in mind the beneficial effects of GTE administration on liver damage, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the hepatoprotective effect of green tea extract (GTE) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver injuries in male hamsters for 8 weeks. Twenty hamsters were equally divided into 4 groups, the control ones (group I) received only dis. water. Hamsters of group II had ...

Abstract* Introduction: Cannabis consumption during pregnancy may affect fetal growth, motor performance, memory and cognitive functions. Methods: Primiparous pregnant Wistar rats were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups (6 rats per group) consisting of control and sham groups as well as 2 groups treated with Win. Win treated groups received daily s.c. injections of 0.5 or 1 mg/kg WIN ...

The effect of subcutaneous injections of vitamin C on the seminal characteristics of Markhoz bucks (2–4-year-old) was studied. The bucks, trained to serve an artificial vagina, were randomly allotted into three equal groups (n = 4) and received daily either zero (1 mL normal saline; control group), or 20 (VitC20 group) or 40 (VitC40 group) mg per kg body weight vitamin C from July 06, 2006 to O...

abstract ischemic brain edema is one of the most important complications of a stroke. this study aims to investigate the impact of pre-feeding of flax seed oil on blood-brain barrier in rat stroke model. in this experimental study animals were randomly divided into 3 groups of experiment, sham, and control. each testing group itself was consisted of 3 subgroups receiving doses of flaxseed oil w...

purpose: to determine the maximum safe dose for intravitreal injection of anti-ctgf (ivac) in rat eyes in order to decrease gene and protein expression of connective tissue growth factor (ctgf) for the treatment of ocular fibrotic disorders. methods: forty-five lister hooded pigmented rats were divided into one of the five groups of 9 rats; 4 out of these 5 groups received different doses of iv...