BACKGROUND Antispasmodic and vasorelaxant effects of Teucrium polium L. (TP) were mentioned in former studies, so we attempted to evaluate the eventual preventive effect of TP in an acute experimental model of hypertension induced by angiotensin II (Ang II). METHODS Forty-eight male Wistar rats were divided randomly into six groups (n = 8); control Group (C), which received only saline, group...

| May 2014 | 478 plants have been shown to produce oxidative stress and toxicity.[15-17] This toxicity inclines to be more common among certain patients and in specifi c clinical conditions. Thus, knowledge about successful prevention or amelioration of a medicinal drug requires information about pathogenic mechanisms of kidney damage and related risk factors.[1,8,18,19] In this regard, to be e...

possessing putative hypolipidemic effects, teucrium polium (tp) have been traditionally used as a medicinal plant in iran. the aim of the present study was to investigate this effect on the sucrose-induced insulin resistance male rat model. thirty wistar male rats weighting 180 ± 20 g were divided into five groups of six each. four groups were given sucrose 50% in drinking water for 10 weeks. i...