background: higher risks of reproductive problems have been found in underweight and overweight women with rapid weight gain or loss but evidence is inconsistent especially in relation to the effect of age of body weight changes. objective: the aim of our study was to detect the peculiarities of menstrual function, prevalence of different types of reproductive disorders and correlations of resp...

Phenol is naturally found in some foods and animal wastes. It is also used as a disinfectant, insecticide and in some pharmaceutical products. Immunotoxicity is considered to be one of the harmful health effects of phenol. Propolis is a mixture of beeswax and resins; it has an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and immunomodulatory effect. This study investigates effect of propolis o...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in people, but overweight and obese human heart failure patients have improved survival compared with normal--or underweight controls--the obesity paradox. The purpose of this study was to determine if there is an association of body weight and body condition with survival in dogs with heart failure. HYPOTHESIS That body condition...

Abstract We explored whether straw bedding at rest stations might affect latency and duration of lying down beyond the 8h required stops during long distance transport. Animals arriving to commercially operated (n=75, 6/load, opportunistically selected) were rested in pens (15.5 × 9.5 m) that either bedded (n=38, straw, 14 cm deep) or non-bedded (n=37). The activity each animal was recorded eve...

The objectives of the present investigation were 1) to study the effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on rat gastric emptying (GE) and 2) to investigate a possible involvement of the vagus nerve in the gastric action of LPS. Endotoxin from E. coli (strain 055:B5) was administered sc, ip or iv to male Wistar rats (220-280 g body weight) at a maximum dose of 50 micrograms/kg animal weight...

The search for herbal medicines the treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis remains most important problem modern medicine. Dipsacoside is one these drugs, it sum triterpene glycosides, obtained in laboratory pharmacognosy Institute Biopharmacology Academy Sciences Kyrgyzstan M.M. Mukhamedziev (head - Ph.D. P.K. Alimbaeva). results experimental study showed changes structural parameters ind...