The study was undertaken to explore the effect of rapamycin, an anti-inflammatory agent, on the metabolic profile of type 2 diabetic mice. Seven-month-old diabetic db/db mice and their lean littermate non-diabetic controls (db/m) were randomized to receive control chow or chow mixed with rapamycin (2.24 mg/kg/day) (each group n =20, males and females) for 4 months and sacrificed. Serum samples ...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate and compare the effects of inorganic organic selenium sources with carriers on growth performance, starter feed intake, blood parameters, concentration glutathione peroxidase in suckling Holstein calves. To this objective, 40 calves (38.47±2.52 kg average birth weight) at 7 days age were selected randomly divided into four experimental groups (10 replic...

trends in cholesterol level of different populations have been investigated in several studies. this study is conducted to determine the trend of cholesterol level of iranian adults from 1990 to 2007. data on cholesterol measurements of four national health surveys that have been carried out in iran used in this study. cholesterol level of 12728 adults aged 25-64 were measured in 1990-1 survey....

Nitrogenous waste excretion in resting dogfish occurred largely (>90 %) as urea-nitrogen (urea-N) efflux across the gills, with a very small urea efflux via the kidney. Ammonia excretion, almost entirely at the gills, accounted for less than 3 % of total nitrogen excretion. Given the extremely high blood urea levels (approximately 640 mmol-N l-1) 'retained' for osmoregulation, and blood ammonia...

ion and judgment (R5 0.049, F5 5.39, P5.005) Education 0.05 0.02 2.05 0.14 .04 Systolic blood pressure 0.01 0.01 2.68 0.18 .008 Language (R5 0.116, F5 27.50, Po.001) Education 0.09 0.02 5.24 0.34 o.001 Drawing (R5 0.103, F5 11.91, Po.001) Education 0.11 0.03 3.59 0.24 o.001 eGFR 0.03 0.01 3.32 0.22 .001 List-generating fluency (R5 0.023, F5 5.24, P5.02) eGFR 0.02 0.01 2.29 0.16 .02 Body mass in...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Early prediction of disease severity of acute pancreatitis (AP) would be helpful for triaging patients to the appropriate level of care and intervention. The aim of the study was to develop a model able to predict Severe Acute Pancreatitis (SAP). METHODS A total of 647 patients with AP were enrolled. The demographic data, hematocrit, High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (H...

The introduction of microchemical methods has made possible many biological investigations which were formerly precluded by the di5culty of obtaining sufficient amounts of material. This has been the case with studies on the blood and urine of fish. The only accurate quantitative chemical data are found in the recent papers of Dr. Denis’ on marine fish, where she reports results which indicate ...

Nine multiparous lactating cows averaging 171 days in milk were divided according to days in milk and milk production into three 3×3 Latin squares with three 3-week periods to investigate the effect of rumen degradable protein on milk urea nitrogen. Diets were formulated to provide 3 concentrations of dietary rumen degradable protein (9.8, 10.8, and 11.8% of dry matter), while rumen undegradabl...

Oxidative stress may play a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Propolis and its extract have antioxidant properties. The effect of ethanolic extract of propolis against experimental diabetes mellitus-associated changes was examined. Diabetes was induced experimentally in rats by i.p. injection of streptozotocin (STZ) in a dose of 60 mg/kg bwt for 3 successive days. Blood urea...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abnormal signals in brain DWI may appear in patients with HE. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical condition and various physiologic factors between patients with HE with and without abnormal signal intensity changes on DWI. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively enrolled patients with HE who underwent brain DWI studies from January 2002 to November 2010....