In modern era, plant extracts are being used extensively as a source of medicinal agents. However, there is limited data available about the toxicity of herbal products used in remedies, are essential for the study of toxicity profile of medicinal plants. Therefore, aim of this study was to observe the biochemical and histopathological changes in liver due to acute oral toxicity of aqueous leaf...

OBJECTIVES Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) is the major component in commercial liquid epoxy resins, which are manufactured by co-reacting bisphenol A with epichlorohydrin. This study was performed to show the developmental effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures to BADGE in male rat offspring. METHODS Mated female rats were divided into four groups, each containing 12 rats. The dosi...

This study shows the possibility of using gallic acid (GA) and/or methyl gallate (MG) accompanied by phosphatidylcholine (PC) instead tert-butylhydoquinone (TBHQ) for frying purposes. The antioxidants and PC were added in concentrations 1.2 mM 500–2000 mg/kg, respectively. Oxidative stability index (OSI) kinetics change conjugated dienes (LCD), carbonyls (LCO), value (AV) used to assess antioxi...

Aims. The main aim of this work was to investigate if the radiative process photoexcitation by accidental resonance (PAR) is producing Fe II lines in the UV region of NGC 4151. At the same time I searched for collisionally excited Fe II emission. While doing so, the broad line region (BLR), intermediate line region (ILR) and narrow line region (NLR) contributions to the Mg II resonance doublet ...

Pogonatherum crinitum is a promising lead (Pb) hyperaccumulator; however, the effects of Pb contamination on P. rhizosphere soil enzymatic activities and microbial composition remain largely unexplored. Thus, an indoor experiment was conducted by cultivating seedlings exposing them to four concentrations (0, 1,000, 2000 3000 mg/kg Pb). Protease, urease, acid phosphatase invertase were determine...

colocasia esculenta linn (ce) is traditionally used for the treatment of various ailments such as high blood pressure, rheumatic pain, pulmonary congestion, etc. hence in present study, the effect of aqueous extract of ce leaves (aece) was evaluated for antihypertensive and acute diuretic activity in rats. preliminary phytochemical evaluation revealed the presence of carbohydrate, saponins, tan...

In order to examine the toxicity profile of glycine, an authorized food additive, a solution of glycine in water for injection was administered orally (via gavage) to male SD rats (Crl:CD(SD)) once daily for 4 weeks at doses of 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg/day in a volume of 10 mL/kg. Control animals received vehicle only. No animals died, and no glycine-related changes were observed in body weight...

An experiment was conducted, from 22 to 42-d-post-hatch, to evaluate the effect of different combinations of carbohydrases (CHS), citric acid (CA) and high-dose phytase in wheat-canola meal-based diets with very low content of non-phytate phosphorus (NPP) on growth performance, plasma calcium (Ca) and P and tibia ash (TA) content of broiler chickens. One hundred and ninety two 21-d-old male chi...

This study aims to evaluate potential toxic effect of Jatropha curcas leaves methanol extract on laboratory rats as well as determine its LD50. A total of 80 male Wistar rats were used as the experimental animals, 40 for LD50 determination and the other 40 for toxicity study. Based on the pretest that was done in order to establish a range of toxicity, 4 dosages (86.00, 58.00, 46.00, and 34.0 k...