BACKGROUND Opiates affect blood factors as well as pain and inflammation in a gender-dependent manner. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of morphine on serum glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, and urea in gonadectomized and inflammation conditions. METHODS Animals were divided as follows: control group, carrageenan and chronic morphine recipients, acute morphine recip...

The objective of this review is to describe recent research findings related to the use of milk or blood urea nitrogen to identify inefficiencies in protein nutrition and estimate nitrogen excretion. A mathematical model was developed to integrate milk urea nitrogen (MUN) and milk composition to predict urinary and fecal excretion, intake, and utilization efficiency for nitrogen in lactating da...

To evaluate the effectiveness of a superactivated charcoal (SAC) in alleviating mycotoxicosis, two experiments were conducted in which 432 male broiler chicks (216 per experiment) were fed diets containing 4 mg aflatoxin (AF) or 6 mg T-2 toxin/kg of diet, with and without 0.5% SAC, from 1 to 21 d of age. Feeding AF and T-2 toxin significantly decreased BW gain over the 21-d experimental period....

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential protective effects of Rosmarinic acid (RA) on rats exposed to ischaemia/reperfusion renal injury. METHODS The prospective study was conducted at Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey, and comprised 21 male Spraque Dawley rats weighing 250-270g each. They were divided into three equal groups. Unilaterally nephrectomised rats were subjected to 60 minutes o...

This study evaluated the effects of physical activity on blood, growth, carcass, and meat quality finishing Alentejano (AL) pigs. Pigs, reared from ~87 to 160 kg in individual pens (no exercise area, NE group, n = 9) or an outdoor park (with WE 9), were fed commercial diets (85% ad libitum). pigs a (~400 m2) with feeding area separated drinking automatic waterer, forcing walk at least 800 m dai...

Comparative effects of oyster mushrooms on plasma and fecal lipid profiles and on liver and kidney function were evaluated in hyper and normocholesterolemic rats. Feeding of hypercholesterolemic rats a 5% powder of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus, P. sajor-caju and P. florida) reduced the plasma total cholesterol level by 37%, 21% and 16%, respectively and reduced the triglyceride level b...

BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The combination of angiotensin II receptor antagonists and HMG CoA reductase inhibitors have shown to confer renoprotection.The purpose of this study was to find out the renoprotective effects of telmisartan and atorvastatin in combination and in monotherapy of Streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic nephropathy in rats. METHODS Diabetes was induced by i....

Studies were made by feeding 25 mg per kg body weight of BHC to rabbits daily for twelve weeks. BHC in the blood increased progressively without affecting blood pH. The levels of glucose, cholesterol, total proteins and creatinine increased while that of urea decreased in the blood of treated animals. The differences among the control and treated rabbits for these parameters were highly signifi...