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Herbal and plant origin crude drugs with anti-lipid peroxidative activity had become a central focus for study of hepatoprotection due to its safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness. The aim of present study is to analyse the hepatoprotective and lipotropic effect of Mentha piperita leaf in CCl4 induced free radical mediated oxidative stress rats. In the present study, an attempt has been made ...

Dietary cirrhosis of the liver was produced in 223 rats, and then therapy of the condition attempted. Administration of lipotropic factors (casein, methionine, choline) was followed not only by reduction of fat infiltration and by regeneration of hepatic parenchyma but, by a reduction of the degree of the fibrosis. In one group of rats, comparison of sections obtained by biopsy, before treatmen...