due to the range of its constituents, colostrum has been considered as a supplement for various diverse purposes. this study was conducted to examine the effect of supplementary bovine colostrum on serum malondialdehyde (mda), antioxidant activity (aoa) and glucose in a diabetic rodent model. sixty male wistar rats were divided into 10 groups of six rats each for 40 days as follows: non-diabeti...

The effects of administered human growth hormone (HGH) were evaluated in dwarfed, prepubertal children who were receiving long-term corticosteroid therapy for a chronic disease. During 11 complete metabolic balance studies, the eight corticosteroid-treated children demonstrated impaired response to large doses of HGH with minimal nitrogen and no phosphorus retention. In contrast, two hypopituit...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the response of treatment of central giant cell lesion to intralesional corticosteroid injections. STUDY DESIGN Review of articles indexed in PubMed on the topic between the years 1988 and 2011, and development of a descriptive meta-analysis of the results. RESULTS Sample of 41 patients primarily treated with intralesional corticosteroid injec...

Summary A case of Cushing' s syndrome associated with application of topical clobetasol propionate (0.05%) is reported. Local application of clobetasol propionate is associated with adrenal suppression in normal subjects and on this basis, it has been recommended that less than 50 g per week be used. There have been sporadic case reports of cushing's syndrome associated with topical steroid bu...

It is becoming apparent that is patients with hirsutism, metabolic aberrations are of greater health importance rather than unwanted hair growth.in this respect , evaluation of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism was carried out on a group of 92 women with idiopathic hirsutism(IH).these were divided into: obese and non-profit obese  groups.seventy healthy subjects were also taken as control group...