Objective(s):This study was planned to appraise the protective effect of Nigella sativa fixed oil (NSO) against subchronic ethanol induced toxicity in rats. Materials and Methods: Studies were carried out on six groups of six animals each, including control (normal saline, gavage), ethanol (3 g/kg/day, gavage), NSO (0.125, 0.25 and 0.5 ml/Kg/day, IP) plus ethanol and NSO (0.5 ml/Kg/day, IP) gro...

many herbaceous plants contain compounds that have biological effects in addition to their medicinal properties. they have compounds with numerous properties, including hypo lipidemic, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, and hepato protective ones, which have been analyzed at different levels. one of these plants, with the scientific name of berberis vulgaris, is barberry. the most important compounds i...

Objective: To study the protective effect of polyprenols on acute liver injury induced by CCl4 and D-Gal. Method: The acute liver injury model induced by 0.5% CCl4 in olive oil (10ml/kg) and D-Gal (800mg/kg, i.p.) in mice and rats respectively. 10, 40 and 160 mg/kg polyprenols was administered i.g., to study the protective effect for different doses of polyprenols, the therapeutic effect of eac...

Liver ischemia and reperfusion (IR) injury is the major complication of liver-related operations. Macrophage polarization has an essential effect on mechanism liver IR injury. Vitamin D receptor (VDR) been found to regulate macrophage alleviate Nevertheless, correlation between VDR in not clearly elucidated. knockout mice wild-type littermates underwent partial for 90 min 6 h. RAW264.7 cells we...

crocin, a bioactive molecule of saffron can be purely isolated from the saffron extract. it has different pharmacological effects such as antioxidant and anticancer activities. morphine is an opioid analgesic drug. it is mainly metabolized in liver and causes devastating effects. it can increase the generation of free radicals. this study was designed to evaluate the protective role of crocin a...

Arnebia euchroma is from Boraginaceae family. Various therapeutic effects have been reported for different species of this plant. The aim of this study was to investigate antioxidant activity of hydroalcoholic extract of the root of A. euchroma and its protective effect on hepatotoxicity induced by CCl4 in mice. In this experimental study, A. euchroma was extracted with ethanol solvent by macer...

Background: The present study was carried out to investigate the possible protective effects of royal jelly (RJ) on oxymetholone (OXM)-induced oxidative liver injuries in mice. Methods: In total, 32 adult male NMRI mice were divided into four groups of eight mice each. Mice in groups 1 and 2 were orally administered 5 mg/kg/day OXM for 30 days. At the same time, mice in group 3 received RJ at a...

objective(s):this study was planned to appraise the protective effect of nigella sativa fixed oil (nso) against subchronic ethanol induced toxicity in rats. materials and methods: studies were carried out on six groups of six animals each, including control (normal saline, gavage), ethanol (3 g/kg/day, gavage), nso (0.125, 0.25 and 0.5 ml/kg/day, ip) plus ethanol and nso (0.5 ml/kg/day, ip) gro...

background and purpose: many workers are exposed to workplace hazards. many occupational diseases are preventable by personal protective devices (ppds). though many workers do not use ppds or their protection by ppds is not sufficient. this study was designed to assess the quality of ppds usage among industrial workers. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 648 workers from four ma...

objective(s):diabetes plays an important role in the induction of the liver injury. grape seed proanthocyanidin (gsp) have a wide range of medicinal properties against oxidative stress. in this study we evaluated antioxidant effects of gsp on liver in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: thirty male sprague–dawley rats were divided into three groups: control, untreated d...