The ethanol and aqueous extracts of leaves of Neptunia Oleracea lour (Mimosaceae) were tested for their efficacy against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced hepatotoxicity in Wistar albino rats. The different groups of animals were administered ethanol and aqueous extracts to carbon tetrachloride treated rats. In the present study ethanol extract (p<0.01) and aqueous extract (p<0.05) significan...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Boerhaviadiffusa extract against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) – induced lipid peroxidation in liver of mice in vitro. Methods: Antioxidant activity of medicinally important plant Boerhaviadiffusawas determined by DPPH – radical scavenging activity. Liver homogenates were prepared and used for various treatments (CCl4 and Boerhaviadi...

Carbon tetrachloride, even in very large doses, has been shownby Lamson et al. (1) to produce no acute intoxication in dogs on a well balanced mixed diet. A preliminary note from this labortory (2) reported, however, that similar or even very small doses of the drug caused a severe and usually fatal poisoning in dogs on a diet of lean meat without bones. One radical difference in the two diets ...

OBJECTIVE To study the carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatoprotective activity in cow urine. METHODS Effect of cow urine distillate on liver function was studied in vivo in rats intoxicated with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Hepatotoxicity was induced by a 1:1 (v/v) mixture of CCl4 in olive oil (5 mL/kg i.p). Protective effect of cow urine distillate (in three dose levels) and standard drug Sil...

HISTORIC[1] Halogenated compounds have been employed as fire extinguishing agents since the early 1900s, when handheld extinguishers containing carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) were first introduced. In the late 1920s, methyl bromide (CH3Br) was found to be more effective than carbon tetrachloride, and was widely used as a fire extinguishing agent by the British in the late 1930s for aircraft protec...

The nucleation site density (N/A) during pool boiling of binary mixtures has been experimentally examined in terms of the heating surface physical properties, the liquid physical properties, the vapour liquid equilibria and the surface micro-roughness. The liquid mixtures used were acetone carbon tetrachloride and n-hexane carbon tetrachloride. A parameter R,, to characterize the micro-roughnes...