The increasing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals and the community has led to a demand for new agents that could be used to decrease the spread of these bacteria. Topical agents such as mupirocin have been used to reduce nasal carriage and spread and to treat skin infections; however, resistance to mupirocin in MRSAs is increasing. Allicin is the main...

INTRODUCTION Tubular toxicity is one of the most important side effects of aminoglycoside antibiotics, especially gentamicin. OBJECTIVES We histopathologically studied the effect of garlic extract and metformin co-administration, in attenuation of genetamicin induced tubular toxicity in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study seventy rats were divided into seven equal groups and except gr...

Garlic (Allium sativum) has been used for centuries as a prophylactic and therapeutic medicinal agent. Importantly, garlic has been suggested to have both cancer-preventive potential as well as significant enhancing effects on the immune system. While these observations are supported experimentally both in vitro and in vivo, the impact of garlic in assisting the immune system in the prevention ...

R an article published, entitled “renoprotective effect of aged garlic extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats” (1). In this study, diabetic rats were feed by aged garlic juice orally. The serum and urinary biochemical parameters were analyzed in all the groups and at the end of 12 weeks follow up, the kidney morphological examination were performed, too. They found that, diabetic rats ...

1,2 Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Thrissur, Kerala, India 680 651 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Investigations were carried out to study the inhibitory effect of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and garlic (Allium sativum) extracts at 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 7.0 and 10.0 per cen...