OBJECTIVE(S) The effect of prolonged overtraining on cytokine kinetics was compared with moderate exercise in the present study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control sedentary (C), moderate trained (MT), (V=20 m/min, 30 min/day for 6 days a week, 8 weeks), overtrained (OT) (V=25 m/min, 60min/day for 6 days a week, 11 weeks) and recovered overtrained (OR) (...

For Quantitative Detection Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy Cheng-Hsin Chuang, Deng-Maw Lu, Lung-Yu Chang, Kai-Chieh Chang, Cheng-Ho Chen, Ting-Feng Wu, Muhammad Omar Shaikh and Hsun-Pei Wu Depart. of Mechanical Eng., Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan Depart. of Chem. and Mater. Eng., Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan ...

Serum lipid and lipoprotein composition in spontaneously diabetic BB Wistar rats, nondiabetic littermates, and control Wistar rats was studied to elucidate diabetes-related abnormalities of lipoprotein composition. Serum total triglycerides and pre-beta-lipoprotein concentrations of insulin-treated spontaneously diabetic BB and nondiabetic littermate rats were significantly higher than those of...

Background. Goodpasture's, or antiglomerular basement membrane (GBM), disease presents with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, and is caused by autoimmunity to the NCI domain of the 0:3 chain of type IV collagen. In order to investigate mechanisms involved in the induction and regulation of glomerulonephritis, experimental models of Goodpasture's disease have been developed in the rat whic...

The aim of this study was to examine the hypoglycemic effect of chlorella in 6 week-old type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK, n=30) rats and 6 week-old normal Wistar (n=30) rats. Animals were randomly assigned to 3 groups respectively, and were fed three different experimental diets containing 0%, 3% or 5% (w/w) chlorella for 8 weeks. In diabetic GK rats, the insulinogenic-indices were not signifi...

Safety evaluation of polyherbal Unani formulation -Deedan in Wistar ratsKhalid Ghazanfar, Showkat A. Dar, Tazeen Nazir, Irfat Ara, Akbar Masood, Seema

BACKGROUND Paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) associated with cocaine has been shown to enhance genital reflexes (penile erection-PE and ejaculation-EJ) in Wistar rats. Since hypertension predisposes males to erectile dysfunction, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of PSD on genital reflexes in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) compared to the Wistar strain. We ...