Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pre-treatment with curcumin on metabolic changes induced by two different pathophysiological mechanisms in rats (fructose diet and streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes mellitus). Materials and Methods: Five groups with 10 rats per group were investigated: control group (healthy rats), fructose diet groups without any pre-treatme...

conclusions: these findings suggested that plasma adpn level is inversely associated with gfr and directly correlate with hdl-cholesterol and inversely with some, but not all metabolic factors of ckd patients who were not undergone dialysis. results: plasma adpn level was significantly higher in ckd patients than control group (p = 0.04). it was directly correlated with hdl-cholesterol (r = 0.5...