OBJECTIVE This prospective study was planned to study the prognostic value of routine clinical, hematological and biochemical parameters, including platelet aggregation in patients of acute stroke, on fatality occurring during the first 30 days. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this study 116 consecutive patients (77 males and 39 females) of stroke (within 72 hours of onset) were included. After clini...

OBJECTIVE We analyzed the relation of osteoprotegerin (OPG) with insulin sensitivity, lipid profile, serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), adipocytokines, and C-reactive protein (CRP) in obese and non-obese subjects. METHODS In the study, 170 subjects (106 obese and 64 non-obese, sex ratio female/male=2.03) were included. Thirty-two obese subjects were reevaluated 6 months after the wei...

BACKGROUND Lead is one of the most toxic metals, producing severe organ damage in animals and humans. Oxidative stress is reported to play an important role in lead acetate-induced liver injury. AIM This study was carried out to investigate the role of ethanol extract of Eucheuma cottonii in protecting against lead acetate-induced hepatotoxicity in male mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sampl...

Gynura procumbens is a plant that contains flavonoid compounds as antioxidants and has hepatoprotective effect. A hepatoprotector compound can protect the liver from damage. One way to determine function measure enzyme activity of Serum Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase (SGOT) Pyruvic (SGPT). This study aimed effect extract ethanol on induced by paracetamol toxic dose. used 20 white male rats d...

BCG is an immune modulatory that inducing humoral and cellular immune responses during a number of infections including cutaneous leishmaniasis. Killed Leishmania Vaccine (KLV) has been applied for its immunogenicity in hosts. This study was carried out between 2010 and 2011 at the Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran. In the present study, alterations of Nitric Oxide (NO) leve...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of zinc supplementation on the activities of certain serum enzymes-alkaline phosphatase (ALP), CuZn superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD), ceruloplasmin, SGOT and SGPT in pigs. Twenty four crossbred (Hampshire X Assam Local) pigs, 4 months of age were randomly divided into 3 groups (n=8 in each). Control (C) animals were offered basal diet supplemented w...

Ethanolic extracts of aerial parts of Solanum surattense burn. (SS), were subjected to in vivo study, by means of serum biochemical parameters and histopathological observations, in order to verify its traditional use in Hepatobiliary disorders. All groups of rabbits received a single dose of CCl4 subcutaneously on 7 th day except group I which was served as normal control . Group II served as ...