The effect of daily, oral administration of ethanolic extract of Khaya senegalensis stem bark (2mg/kg body weight) for 18days on the alkaline phosphatase, aspartate and alanine aminotransferase activities of rat liver and serum were investigated. Compared with the control, the activities of liver alkaline phosphatase (ALP), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) inc...

BACKGROUND Muscle enzymes in saliva have been reported to be possible markers of heart and muscle damage in humans. The aim of this study was to assess if Creatine kinase (CK) and Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities could be measured in canine saliva, and to evaluate their possible changes in situations of muscle damage. RESULTS The spectrophotometric assays for CK and AST measurement...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The increase in overweight and obese children may be linked to increased rates of liver damage and dyslipidaemia. This study aimed to explore the associations of liver biomarkers with overweight/obesity and dyslipidaemia in Mexican children. METHODS The study was a population-based cross-sectional nutritional survey carried out in the State of Nuevo León, Mexico. The study...

To clarify the effects of alcohol consumption on hepatocellular injury, we examined aspartate and alanine aminotransferases (AST and ALT), and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), together with weekly alcohol consumption calculated from a self-rating questionnaire, in 1113 Japanese salesmen. The thresholds of associations between alcohol consumption and liver markers were estimated by the benchmark...

At present, there are no diagnostic tools that permit early detection of peri-implantitis. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the correlation of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels with traditional periodontal clinical parameters around dental implants, since AST has been associated with destruction of cardiac, hepatic, and periodontal tissues. Twenty healthy voluntee...

ABSTRACT Ketosis can seriously impair cow performance. This study detected changes in prepartum blood metabolic parameters for predicting postpartum ketosis occurrence dairy cows. Body condition score (BCS) was assessed before and after delivery. Blood samples of 63 cows were collected from 10 days calving to measure including β-hydroxybutyric acid (BHBA), non-esterified fatty (NEFA), glucose (...

OBJECTIVES To determine the overall incidence of isoniazid (INH) hepatotoxicity in a public health tuberculosis clinic over a 7-year period, and to determine if systematic, limited aspartate aminotransferase (AST) monitoring would be of benefit in detecting INH hepatotoxicity. METHODS Evaluation of INH hepatotoxicity in adults aged > or = 25 years from a database maintained from fall 1996 to ...

OBJECTIVE The antioxidant vitamin E has been extensively employed to treat chronic liver diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of vitamin E supplementation in lowering alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and chronic hepatitis C (CHC). METHOD...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common liver disease worldwide and ultrasonography is widely used in the diagnosis and the follow-up we purposed to assess intraobserver and interobserver variability in the sonographic evaluation of the existence and steatosis grades of NAFLD. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels and AST to ALT (AST/ALT) ratio...

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of mortality and a major public concern. The aim our study to investigate role aqueous bark extract Terminalia arjuna on serum enzymes in cigarette smoke exposed rats. A total fifteen (15) adult healthy Wistar rats from 100-158 were divided into three groups (A, B C) each containing five Group (A) serving as control without exposure smoke, (B) (C) served e...