background: shell is one of the most important by-products of shrimp processing methods which can potentially pollute the environment, whereas shrimp shell contain large amounts of chitin and chitosan and can be used as immune and growth stimulator in aquaculture. objectives: the purpose of present study was to investigate the effect of oral administration of chitosan extracted from litopenaeus...

Background: Microalgae are known to have beneficial effects on health. On the other hand, studies have reported negative effects of diabetes on hematological parameters. Effects of Spirulina platensis (SP) and Chlorella vulgaris (CV) microalgae, singly and combined, on hematological parameters in diabetic rats are not still studied. Thus, the present study was conducted to investigate the effec...

the antitumor activity of ethanol extract of prosopis glandulosa torr. (epg) was evaluated against ehrlich ascites carcinoma (eac) tumor model in swiss albino mice on dose dependent manner. the activity was assessed using survival time, average increase in body weight, hematological parameters and solid tumor volume. oral administration of epg at the dose of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg, significantl...

background: the present study deals with the effect of helminthic infection as nematode parasite like aspiculuris tetraptera on the haematological parameters of infected and vaccinated mice. methods: totally 15 mice were used. five mice were used for positive control, 5 mice used for nega­tive control and 5 mice used for experiment. the hematological parameters were studied viz. rbc, hb, and se...