E VIDENCE has been presented by various investigators that smoking of cigarettes causes transient hyperglycemia in human beings. Haggard and Greenberg,l Caponnette,2 Tbppner,3 Burstein and Goldenberg,4 and Lundberg and Thyselius-Lundberg5 found in nondiabetic habitual smokers an increase in the level of the fasting blood sugar after smoking and a similar effect was produced by intramuscular inj...

The effects of Anethum graveolens L. (dill) extracts on the female reproductive system were studied in 54 Wistar female rats with regular estrous cycle in six groups. The experimental groups were fed with 0.045 g/kg and 0.45 g/kg of aqueous extract, 0.5 g/kg and 5 g/kg of ethanol extract for 10 days. The sham group was fed with solvent and the controls received no treatment. The estrous cycle c...

OBJECTIVES Herbal waters are extensively used in most parts of including . Visiting a patient with total blindness due to daily ingestion of around 200 ml of herbal water (Plant forty water) per day for six months was the rational for methanol determination in all herbal waters available in markets. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of two hundred and nineteen bottles of herbal waters were random...

Knowledge as to the composition of sweat is as yet fragmentary and many points are subject to dispute. Reasons for this are numerous, some of the more obvious being the difficulty of making satisfactory collections, variation in composition of sweat elaborated by different regions of the body, and the fact that exploratory work cannot be done on animals. The subject assumes considerable importa...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of nitroxin biofertilizer and chemical fertilizer on the growth, yield, and essential oil composition of dill. The experiment was conducted under field condition in randomized complete block design with three replications and two factors. RESULTS The first factor was the concentrations of nitroxin biofertilizer (0%, 50%, and 100%) o...

A 63-year-old woman presented with a history of hyperthyroidism symptoms over two years, referred for thyroid scintigraphy. In the hospital archives we have met her previous thyroid scintigraphy showing a hot nodule in the upper part of right thyroid lobe. However, her recent thyroid scintigraphy was showing only cold nodules but no hot nodule, giving an impression that she had some treatment t...

A major change that has accompanied the world-wide “massification” of higher education is the new-found openness of policymakers to the use of competitive markets to steer the university sector. In many countries efforts to improve the quality of publicly provided higher education, both in teaching and in research, are leading to experiments with market-based policy instruments (Teixeira, et al...

Introduction: Dill (Anethum graveolens), a herb from from Umbelliferae, is used traditionally to treat convulsion and increasing milk production. Its antimicrobial, antihyperlipidaemic, anti-hypercholesteroaemic effects and gastric acid secretion reducing effect have been reported. The spasmolytic effect of dill fruit on rat uterus has also been shown recently. The aim of present study was to i...