Objectives: Menopausal transition with declining estrogen levels significantly affects the physiological properties of women and consequently contributes to a series of medical conditions, including obesity. Obesity is a crucial risk factor associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and breast cancer. Increasing dietary protein content improves satiety and energy expenditure. T...

This is the first study to investigate intravenous (i.v.) laser blood irradiation, interstitial (i.st.) laser acupuncture, and electroacupuncture (EA) in combination with heart rate variability (HRV) and electrocorticogram. We investigated 10 male anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats under the three conditions mentioned previously in Beijing, China, and data analysis was performed in Graz, Europe. ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the effect of water-pipe (WP) smoking on hematological parameters of Wistar rats. METHODS Thirty-five young male rats (200-250 g) were randomly assigned to five groups (n=7). The control group was exposed to room air and the experimental groups were exposed to WP smoking, using a special apparatus designed to have the ability to keep the rats for 40 ...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a well-known risk factor for septicemia. Renal transplantation (RTx) is the treatment of choice for ESRD. However, RTx recipients should undergo long-term immunosuppressive therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of septicemia in ESRD patients with and without RTx.This cohort study used the National Health Insurance (NHI) data of Taiwan from 200...

Effects of i.c.v. administered somatostatins on morphology and function of pituitary FSH cells were examined in adult male Wistar rats. The animals were given three 1 microg doses of SRIH-14 or SRIH-28 in 5 microl saline every second day. Controls were given the same volume of saline only. Both SRIH treatments lead to a significant decrease in absolute pituitary weight and volume of FSH cells i...

C. febrifuga known by the common name (Mvala) is a medicinal plant of Rubiaceae family widely used Congolese traditional healers to treat many diseases. For this study two extracts aqueous and methanol were taken away with yield 8.5% 11% respectively. The convulsions latency time in rats treated different was greater than 15 minutes. Among five one presented compared control group. protected ag...

1) External recording of cerebral clearance was performed after Kr85 saline solution injection into the common carotid artery. Clearance curve thus obtained was divided into 3 exponentials. The 3rd phase represents mainly clearance of the area perfused with external carotid artery and the rest of the curve after subtraction of the 3rd phase can be treated in the similar way to that of reported ...