Introduction: Using brief episodes of ischemia and reperfusion (IR) prior to a more sustained IR insult – ischemic preconditioning (IPC) – can reduce IR injury of the heart, brain and many other tissues. The purpose of present study was to investigate the effect of 2min ischemic periods on subsequent rat renal IR injury. Methods: Male rat's renal IR injury was investigated in a right nephrectom...

The role of Pharmacist in making the therapeutic decisions for safe and effective therapy is increasing all over the world. However, there are many aspects of drugs in making these decisions that are less commonly studied such as the correlation of cardiac output with pharmacokinetics of drugs. The cardiac output, besides the other factors, is also affected by drugs like atenolol. Therefore, th...

By relating amino acid excretion to creatinine excretion in a specimen of urine from fasting patients, the normal variation of cystine, glutamine, glycine, and alanine excretion in relation to creatinine excretion and the age of the individual has been defined. No amino acid excretion differences between the two sexeswere detectable. In general, the excretion levels for these four amino acids w...

BACKGROUND Hyperkalemia is one of the more serious complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and the cause of potassium retention is a reduction in urinary potassium excretion. However, few studies have examined the extent of the decrease of urinary potassium excretion in detail with respect to decreased renal function. METHODS Nine hundred eighty-nine patients with CKD (CKD stages G1 an...

Renal mass and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were reduced from normal to approximately 15% of normal in two groups of dogs. One group received a constant salt intake (CSI) throughout the study. The second group was subjected to "proportional reduction" of sodium intake (PRS), a dietary regimen which involved the reduction of sodium intake in exact proportion to the decrement in GFR. In the C...

BACKGROUND Urinary betaine excretion positively correlated with plasma homocysteine in outpatients attending a lipid disorders clinic (lipid clinic study). We aimed to confirm this in subjects with established vascular disease. METHODS The correlation between betaine excretion and homocysteine was compared in samples collected from subjects 4 months after hospitalization for an acute coronary...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although albumin excretion rates have been related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in both diabetic and nondiabetic adults, little is known about the relation between albuminuria and either cardiovascular risk factors or the insulin resistance syndrome in adolescents. A normal range for albumin excretion in adolescents was established, correlations between al...

Parasitism remains a challenge in the effective and efficient management of ruminant livestock. Among different approaches proposed for better these parasites, present work carried out on farm Faculty Agronomic Sciences (FSA) located Sékou, focused effectiveness annual mugwort powder (Artemisia annua) gastrointestinal nematodes (Nematoda) cattle. The coprological analyses were made at Laborator...

Abstract Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effect of swimming training (T) on renal system and body composition parameters in young animals treated with a high sucrose diet (SUD) during 12 weeks. Results The SUD impaired physical performance, increased adiposity index (BAI), Lee (LI) retroperitoneal adipose tissue (RAT) weight, plasma creatinine number cells nuclei, decreased urinary v...