Background and Objectives: Capparis decidua is a plant used in herbal medicine. This study was carried out to assess effects of C. decidua hydroalcoholic extract on blood glucose, lipid profile and leptin in male rats with high-cholesterol diets. Materials and Methods: Totally, 40 Wistar-albino male rats with 200–250 g weight were equally divided into one control (C) and three experimental gro...

this study aimed to observe the protective effects of sufentanil pretreatment on rat cerebral injury during cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) and to explore the underlying mechanism. twenty-four male adult sprague dawley (sd) rats were divided into 4 groups. then, the rat cpb model was established. a 14g trocar was inserted into the atrium dextrum. for rats in s1 and s5 groups, sufentanil (1 µg•kg-1...

background: piper guineense (pg) and sesamum indicum (si) have been shown to be rich sources of antioxidants and other health benefits; hence, we evaluated the impact of its consumption in hypercholesterolemic model on lipid metabolism. methods: forty-eight animals were divided into eight groups of six rats each. rats were given cholesterol (40 mg/0.3ml), pg and si extract (100 and 200 mg/kg), ...

Introduction: Stress has many effects on the development of systems and organs in the fetal period, and these effects appear after birth. Since hemopoietic system is susceptible to stress, effects of restraint stress were studied in offspring of pregnant rats. Methods: Pregnant rats were divided into one control and three stress groups. The control group did not receive any stress during th...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of caffeine and trans-cinnamaldehyde (tc) on growth performance, hematological parameters, stress hormones, immune response, and some blood parameters of broiler chickens. three hundred fifty 1-d-old broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 7 dietary treatments (five pens/ treatment of 10 male broilers each) in a completely randomized design...

objective(s): the alteration of glucose transporters is closely related with the pathogenesis of brain edema. we compared neuronal damage/death in the hippocampus between adult and young gerbils following transient cerebral ischemia/reperfusion and changes of glucose transporter-1(glut-1)-immunoreactive microvessels in their ischemic hippocampal ca1 region. materials and methods: transient cere...