INTRODUCTION: WHO predicts an increase in the number of people with diabetes Indonesia from 8.4 million 2000 to around 21.3 2030. Another marker for measuring insulin resistance is homeostasis model assessment-insulin (HOMA-IR). Bariatric surgery most effective therapy patients both terms weight loss and improvement obesity-related diseases such as Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM). OBJECTIVE: This...

Background: Individually, green tea and coffee have been extensively studied for mitigation of metabolic syndrome (MS) in both rats humans; however, their combined effect requires further investigation. Thus, we compared the combining decaffeinated light roasted on MS rats. Methods: An animal model was constructed by feeding Spragu...

Dieda ointment, a Chinese medicine, has been widely used in the clinical treatment of fracture after years research to prove that it significant effects on healing injury and relieving pain, reinforcing tendons setting bones. However, mechanism its is still unclear. The purpose this study was explore ointment promoting healing. materials methods explored were establish model Sprague-Dawley rats...

We have examined the effects of pre-hepatic portal hypertension on the responsiveness of aorta from Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Rats were made portal hypertensive by creating a calibrated portal vein stenosis, or sham operated. In rat aorta, there was no significant difference between portal hypertensive and sham-operated animals in the contractile potency of KCl, noradrenaline or phenyleph...

This study was carried out in order to investigate some of the effects of aqueous seed extract of Datura stramonium on the histology of the frontal cortex and hippocampus of Sprague Dawley rats as marker of toxicity. 16 adult male Sprague Dawley rats were used for this study. The rats were distributed into two groups (A and B). The rats in group B served as the treatment group and were administ...