Background: Nephrotoxicity is an inherent of certain anticancer drugs. Aim: This study aimed to assess the protective effect of onion oil and selenium against cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in male rats. Results: Cisplatin (5 mg/kg, i.p.) caused significant increases in serum sodium, blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, total sodium and potassium excreted in urine, urine volume and lipid pe...

Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.) is one of the important vegetable crops in China. However, the seeds of this crop are short-lived and their vitality tends to be easily lost in the course of storage. The present study was conducted to elucidate the effects of welsh onion seed priming with potassium nitrate (KNO3) on seed vigor and on other such related mechanisms during twelve months of stora...

Eggplant leaves (Solanum macrocarpon) are rich in nutrients which unfortunately lost during cooking. To reduce micronutrients losses and enhance antioxidant potentialities, they were cooked water for 30 minutes with onion, ginger Guinea pepper. The analyzes focused on the determination of vitamin C, β-carotene, phenolic compounds, free radical-scavenging lipid peroxidation inhibitory act...

This study was established to contrast the effectiveness of red onion (Allium cepa) juice and green tea (Camellia sinenses) extract on lipid oxidation and sensory characteristics of refrigerated sturgeon fillets (Acipenser persicus). For this, fillets were tumbled in 1%, 2.5%, and 5% (v/v) aqueous solutions of onion Juice (OJ) and tea extract (TE), and then stored for up to 8 days at 4°C. Chemi...

AIM To estimate the impact of high fat diet and estrogen deficiency on the oxidative and antioxidative status in the liver of the ovariectomized rats, as well as the ameliorating effect of physical activity or consumption of functional food containing bioactive compounds with antioxidative properties on oxidative damage in the rat liver. METHODS The study was conducted from November 2012 to A...

Extra-large nanochannel formation in the internal structure of cationic cubosome nanoparticles results from the interplay between charge repulsion and steric stabilization of the lipid membrane interfaces and is evidenced by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (Cryo-TEM) and synchrotron radiation small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The swollen cubic symmetry of the lipid nanoparticles e...

Amelioration of oxidant and stress biomarkers of diabetes mellitus (DM) is the keyto better generate new therapy. The aim of the current study was to investigate the efficacy of aqueous garlic and onion extracts and camel milk in alloxan (ALX)-induced diabetic rats with respect to body gain, glucose, antioxidant defenses, anti-inflammatory cytokines (IL-4 and IL-5), liver function tests, lipid ...

The consumption of functional ingredients has been suggested to be a complementary tool for the prevention and management of liver disease. In this light, processed onion can be considered as a source of multiple bioactive compounds with hepatoprotective properties. The liver fingerprint of male Wistar rats (n = 24) fed with three experimental diets (control (C), high-cholesterol (HC), and high...

Abstract In this study ameliorative effects of ascorbic acid (0.5 mM) on onion (Allium cepa L. cv. Red Azarshahr) under copper stress (Cu: 6.5 μM) were studied. Fresh weights of leaves and roots were reduced in seven week old plants under excess copper condition. Cu stress also reduced membrane stability index in leaves. There was a considerable increase in H2O2 content and lipid peroxidation i...

About 80% of onion bulb dry matter is non-structural carbohydrates (Darbyshire & Henry, 1981). These carbohydrates are predominantly glucose, fructose, sucrose and low-molecular-weight fructans, while starch and raffinose are absent (Darbyshire & Henry, 1981; Benkeblia et al., 2002). The metabolism of sugars is closely linked to the dormancy and sprouting state (Kato, 1966), and the most import...