Background: Iron deficiency anaemia in women of reproductive age group is a major health problem in India. Objective: The present study was designed to compare the efficacy, tolerability, and cost, of three oral iron preparations among the anaemic pregnant women (n=6o) of gestation (12-24 weeks). Methodology: The patients were divided into 3 groups (n=20) and treated with ferrous fumarate(100mg...

Article history: Received on: 21/09/2015 Revised on: 22/10/2015 Accepted on: 15/11/2015 Available online: 27/12/2015 Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the activity of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. Petal extract (NNPE) in tubular enzymes and in urinary albumin of Gentamicin (GM) induced renotoxic rats. Material and methods: The study was conducted for fourteen days in twenty-four rats i...

Chronic exposure to d-galactose (d-gal) serves as a model for age-related oxidative damage and cognitive dysfunction. However, methods used, including the dose and treatment time of d-gal as well as the gender, age and strain of animals used, vary greatly among published articles. In this study, we investigate the effect of gender, age and treatment time on brain oxidative stress and spatial me...

BACKGROUND The Rosemary extract (RE) possesses various antioxidant, cytoprotective and cognition- improving bioactivities. In this study, we postulated which doses of RE have a more effect on the hippocampus of middle-aged rats. METHODS In this experimental study, thirty-two middle-aged male Wistar rats were fed by different doses (50,100 and 200 mg/kg/day) of RE (containing 40% carnosic acid...

Several microbial species associated with wine were challenged against increasing concentrations of dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC). The concentration inducing complete cell death upon addition to red wine was regarded as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). In dry red wines with 12% (v/v) ethanol and pH 3.50, the inactivation depended on the initial cell concentration. For an initial inocul...

The study was conducted to investigate the effects of vitamin E on NK cell activity and lymphocyte proliferation in tr eated female mice by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). In chronic TCDD trial, 45 mice were divided into 5 groups, and the levels of TCDD and vitamin E were 0 and 0, 100 and 0, 100 and 20, 100 and 100, and 100 ng/kg/d and 500 mg/kg/d, respectively. In acute TCDD trial,...

Intestinal fluid and glucose absorption was studied in jejunal and ileal segments in Xylopia aethiopica fed rats using inverted sac technique. Thirty male Wistar rats were assigned into three groups of 10 rats each; control, 100mg/kg and 200mg/kg Xylopia aethiopica treated groups. The control group received normal rat chow and water while the low dose and high dose groups received oral administ...