Background and Study Aim. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects different types contractions on muscle damage fatigue in sedentary individuals.
 Material Methods. Thirty healthy male individuals participated study. Strength training applied was 3 times a week for 8 weeks. Before study, loads were determined by making maximal force measurements all subjects. 30 subjects partic...

Background: The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services approved a number of panels as screening tests including those for liver functions. The utility of routinely testing for Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and direct bilirubin was questioned and empirical data analyzed to suggest alternatives. Methods: Tests done over six months were examined for AST, ALT, total and direct bilirubin valu...

Local anesthetics, which are widely known to be neuronal voltage-gated Na(+) channel blockers, also affect a variety of other ion channels, N-methyl-d-asparate (NMDA) receptors and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-izoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors. Glutamate, which is released from presynaptic fibers, activates extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) through NMDA and AMPA receptors in sp...

Cytokines have been implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of brain diseases in which neurological dysfunction has been attributed to a change in amino acid neurotransmitter metabolism. In the present in vitro study, we investigated the effects ofcytokines on astrocyte glutamine synthetase (GS) activity and subsequently on N-methyl-D-asparate (NMDA) receptor-mediated neurotoxicity. Proinfla...

Amide derivatives of fatty acids were recently isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of sleep-deprived animals and found to induce sleep in rats. To determine which brain receptors might be sensitive to these novel neuromodulators, we tested them on a range of receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes. cis-9,10-Octadecenamide (ODA) markedly potentiated the action of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on 5-HT2...

Rat liver cytosolic sulfotransferase activity forms the highly reactive sulfuric acid ester of N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene (N-OH-2AAF), an ultimate carcinogen in 2-acetylaminofluorene (2AAF) hepatocarcinogenesis. A previous report demonstrated that 2AAF-induced liver hyperplastic nodules displayed a persistent loss of cytosolic N-OH-2AAF sulfotransferase activity following a hepatocarcinoge...

Insight of evidence that some complications of diabetes mellitus due to hyperglycemia, we investigated the effect of T. arjuna bark extract on serum, liver and kidney marker enzymes in alloxan - induced diabetic rats. T. arjuna was administered orally at a doses of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight for 30 days, after which serum liver and kidney tissues were assayed for the degree of pathological c...