enhanced oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus may contribute to the pathogenesis of diaetic complications. in this article, the stress oxidative generation has been studied in experimental diabetes by ferric reducing ability of plasma assay, a sensitive and simple method, and by other oxidative damage markers. the ferric reducing ability of plasma values as a total antioxidant capacity were si...

UNLABELLED The effects of pioglitazone, a very used drug in the treatment of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, were tested at the level of ovary of non-pregnant female rats. MATERIAL AND METHODS The experiment was performed on three groups of adult non-pregnant female rats. group 1 was a control group (and did not receive any substance), group 2 received streptozotocin 60 mg/kg i.p. (s...

The frequent clinical observation of the association of diabetes mellitus and candidiasis'z prompted an investigation of the effect of alloxan diabetes on experimental infections in mice caused by Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida guilliermondii, and Candida parapsilosis. The results of this investigation reveal that alloxan diabetes enhances, in the mouse, experimental infections c...

BACKGROUND Diabetes in pregnant women is associated with an increased risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity and remains a significant medical challenge. Diabetes during pregnancy may be divided into clinical diabetes and gestational diabetes. Experimental models are developed with the purpose of enhancing understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of diseases that affect humans. With ...