Gordon and Jackson (1) found that synthetic monomethyltryptophan was capable of stimulating growth in rats subsisting on a diet deficient in tryptophan. Chin (2) isolated kynurenine and kynurenic acid from the urine of rabbits after the parenteral administration of monomethylL-tryptophan (MMT). On the other hand, recent studies have shown that the albino rat, pig, horse, cotton-rat, and man can...

Background: Dillenia serrata (locally known as singi) is a natural product with the potential to improve liver function in hypercholesterolemia, due anticholesterol and antioxidant properties.
 Objective: This study aimed investigate effect of D. on histopathological features rat livers induced by high-fat diet.
 Methods: used quasi-experimental vivo post-test-only control group desig...

an in vivo experiment was conducted to study the effects of probiotic bacillus coagulans spores, with and without prebiotic, inulin, on gastrointestinal (gi) microbiota of healthy rats and its potentiality to survive in the gi tract. forty-eight male wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups (n=12) and fed as follows: standard diet (control), standard diet supplied with 5% w/w long cha...

objective(s):consumption of high-fat foods is one of the major causes of obesity. physical exercise is a strategy used to counteract obesity. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks endurance training and high-fat diet (hfd) on appetite-regulating hormones in rat plasma. materials and methods:twenty eight male wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups: contro...

Dietary consumption of processed high fat diet led to the development metabolic diseases. This study aimed demonstrate retinopathy in a rat offspring maternally fed on cholesterol an...