The effects of dietary supplementation of garlic (Allium sativum) extract on the growth and disease resistance of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus was evaluated. Also in-vitro evaluation of susceptibility of fish-borne multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria to aqueous extract of garlic was done. Aqueous garlic extract exhibited inhibitory activity against MDR bacteria and the degree o...

Complications of Diabetes mellitus caused by persistent hyperglycemia is a challenge in management the disease as synthetic drugs used are often expensive, specific and associated with side effects. This study was aimed to determine anti-diabetic potential mesocarp extract Hyphaene thebaica fruit streptozotocin-induced Diabetic rats. The hypoglycemic effects methanol, aqueous ethylacetate oral ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that elevated midpregnancy serum insulin (IRI) and C-peptide (CP) concentrations are associated with later development of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), independent of prepregnancy obesity and midpregnancy blood pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In this prospective study, a cohort of normotensive women, ages > or = years performed a 50-g glucose cha...

Preliminary studies suggest that maternal heat stress (HS) during late gestation exerts carryover effects on a calf's insulin response after weaning, but a comprehensive evaluation of how maternal HS affects calf intake, growth, and metabolic response from birth to weaning is lacking. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of maternal HS during the dry period on dry matter intake, growth, an...

The modulation of insulin release from the isolated pancreas using normal rats rendered hyperglycemic by in vivo glucose infusion was studied. In 24 h and 48 h hyperglycemic rats , the increase i n the amount of insulin released was reduced in response to glucose challenge , but was unchanged in relation to arginine challenge. In 48 h hyperglycemic rats insulin secretion after glucagon challeng...

Response of middle-aged men to loo-gram and 50-gram doses of glucose given fasting and 1, 2, and 3 hours after meal. PREFACE This is one of several studies designed to evaluate examination procedures used in the first cycle of the Health ESamination Survey. These studies constitute efforts to define and to measure some of the components of variation in the examination techniques. Where the tech...