In attempts to design a complete purified diet some observations were made on the rates of weight increase in rats receiving simple basal diets with various supplements. A recent review by Dunn, Murphy & Rockland (1947) on the optimal growth rate of the rat increased our interest in the studies of Zucker, Hall, Young & Zucker (1941 a-c) on the relation of weight to age in the rat and, although ...

Background: S-methyl cysteine (SMC) is a hydrophilic cysteine-containing compound naturally found in garlic and onion. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the protective effect of SMC on oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in an experiment of metabolic syndrome.Methods: Male Wistar rats were divided into five groups (6 rats in each group), namely; control, cont...

In three experiments on the social induction of food preferences in rats, I found: (a) that eight 30-min exposures of a naive "observer" rat to a "demonstrator" rat fed one of two approximately equipalatable diets produced observer preference for the diet fed to its demonstrator that lasted for more than a month, (b) that simple exposure of naive subjects to a diet itself, rather than to a rat ...

Background: Crude oil is a very toxic chemical. Recently, the search for protective substances is attracting attention. This study aimed to investigate the hematoprotective potentials of oil palm leaves against the toxicity induced by crude oil. Methods: Male Wistar albino rats (n=36) were divided into six groups of rats (n=6). Group 1 (controls) were fed with normal rat food.  Groups 2 and ...

SUKI, WADI N., RICK S, SCHWETTMANN, FLOYD C. RECTOR, JR., AND DONALD W. SELDIN. &fect of chronic minerahorticoid administration on calcium excretion in the rat. Am. J. Ph ysiol. 2 15 ( 1) : 7 l-74. 1968.~The effect of prolonged 9-alphafluorohydrocortisone administration on sodium and calcium excretion was investigated in rats fed a low-calcium synthetic diet. In rats fed salt the administration...

Background: Disturbance of the gut microbiota may play a critical role in progression nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) induced by high-fat diet (HFD). Changes were analyzed rat HFD-induced NAFLD model following treatment with Qinghua Fang (QHF), Chinese herbal formula currently used clinical practice traditional medicine.

Dementia is one of the most important problems nowadays. Aging is associated with learning and memory impairments. Diet rich in cholesterol has been shown to be detrimental to cognitive performance. This work was carried out to compare the effect of high cholesterol diet on the hippocampus of adult and aged male albino rats. Twenty adult and twenty aged male rats were used in this study. Accord...

OBJECTIVES Genomic function of vitamin D receptor (VDR) indicates spermatogenesis that is important for in male reproductive organ authors evaluated the VDR expression in seminal vesicles with high cholesterol (HC) formula diet rat, because there is no report about relationship or difference in VDR in seminal vesicles between HC and control. METHODS Male C57BL/6 mice aged 5 weeks were raised ...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic liver disease, and is commonly observed in patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes. The pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis is clinically important to the outcome of NAFLD, however, is not well understood. Since dietary habits are often considered to be responsible for NAFLD, we used a synthetic diet rich in disaccharides (12.1% calorie sucros...