Antioxidant activity of fresh Allium sativum L. (garlic) is well known and is mainly due to unstable and irritating organosulphur compounds. Fresh garlic extracted over a prolonged period (up to 20 months) produces odourless aged garlic extract (AGE) containing stable and water soluble organosulphur compounds that prevent oxidative damage by scavenging free radicals. The aim of this study was t...

Sir—In their recent article, Piscitelli et al. [1] advise that " patients receiving saqui-navir as their sole protease inhibitor should avoid using garlic supplements " [1, p. 238]. In their study, healthy volunteers who received the antiretroviral drug sa-quinavir and a garlic supplement exhibited a significant decline in plasma levels of saquinavir. As one reason for the decline in systemic l...

Sir—In their recent article, Piscitelli et al. [1] advise that " patients receiving saqui-navir as their sole protease inhibitor should avoid using garlic supplements " [1, p. 238]. In their study, healthy volunteers who received the antiretroviral drug sa-quinavir and a garlic supplement exhibited a significant decline in plasma levels of saquinavir. As one reason for the decline in systemic l...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether garlic extract therapy is efficacious and safe in children with hypercholesterolemia. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. SETTING Specialized pediatric lipid disorders ambulatory clinic. PARTICIPANTS Thirty pediatric patients, aged 8 to 18 years, who had familial hyperlipidemia and a minimum fasting total cholesterol level gre...

Hyperglycemia in the diabetic state increases oxidative stress and antioxidant therapy can be strongly correlated with decreased risks for diabetic complications. The purpose of this study is to determine antioxidant effect of garlic and aged black garlic in animal model of type 2 diabetes. The antioxidant activity of garlic and aged black garlic was measured as the activity in scavenging free ...

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell anemia is one of the most prevalent hereditary disorders with prominent morbidity and mortality. With this disorder oxidative, phenomena play a significant role in its pathophysiology. One of the garlic (Allium sativum L.) formulations, aged garlic extract (AGE), has been reported to exert an anti-oxidant effect in vitro, we have evaluated the anti-oxidant effect of AGE ...

In this study, we investigated the hepatoprotective effects of aged black garlic (ABG) in rodent models of liver injury. ABG inhibited carbon tetrachloride-induced elevation of aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT), which are markers of hepatocellular damage, in SD rats. D-galactosamineinduced hepatocellular damage was also suppressed by ABG treatment. However, ABG does no...