The effect of ingestion of dietary oxidized groundnut oil on the histology of wistar rat brain (cerebral cortex), liver, and kidney were examined. Female weanling rats (Rattus norvegicus) were maintained for 12 weeks on intermittently thermoxidzed groundnut oil at 15% dietary level as part of a balanced diet. Fresh (unheated) groundnut oil served as the control. Histological examination of the ...

The hepatoprotective and some haematological effects of Allium sativum (Garlic) and vitamin C were studied on experimental rats that were exposed to lead (Pb) for one week. Twenty – four female Wistar rats were divided into four groups of six rats per group. Rats in group A were kept as the control. Rats in groups B, C and D were exposed to 100 μmol/kg body weight of lead acetate intraperitonea...

BACKGROUND Elevated plant sterol accumulation has been reported in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP) and the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat. Additionally, a blood pressure quantitative trait locus (QTL) has been mapped to rat chromosome 6 in a New Zealand genetically hypertensive rat strain (GH rat). ABCG5 and ABCG8 (encoding sterolin-1 an...