Objectives: Cinnamon as an antioxidant is able to reduce oxidative stress. Previous study confirmed antioxidant enzymes have beneficial and essential effects on male infertility by their role against reactive oxygen species. Material and methods: Wistar male rats (n=20) were allocated into two groups, control group (n=10) and cinnamon group (n=10) that received 75mg/kg by gavage method, daily f...

Recent years witnessed an upsurge in the use of nutraceuticals, nutritionals and naturals in therapeutics at global level. Conventional treatment options available as synthetic drugs does not meet properly the therapeutic needs for treating diabetes and the herbal remedies provide a better therapeutic hope with lesser side effects. Nutraceuticals are nonspecific biological therapies including b...

Wound healing activity of methanol extract of Alternanthera brasiliana [5% (w/w) ointment] was evaluated in experimental burn wound model in rats. Healing potential was assessed by the rate of wound contraction, estimation of anti-oxidants like catalase, superoxide dismutase, reduced glutathione, protein, vitamin C and hydroxyproline, along with histopathological examination on 8th day post wou...

Sunmmiary. Particuilate cell wall polysaccharide synthetase from oat coleoptiles could use either guanosine diphosphate glucose or turidine diphosphate glucose; the latter was a much more effective glucose donor. The neutral polymer derived from uridine diphosphate glu-cose utilization yielded, after cellulase digestion, mostly cellobiose and to a lesser extent a suibstance tentatively identifi...

Oral leukoplakia (OL) is the most common potentially malignant disorder of the oral mucosa. The etiological role of Candida in leukoplakia has been a subject of debate in recent years. Candida invasion has been suggested to be a significant risk factor for malignant transformation of OL and also it may be associated with certain clinical characteristics such as lesion type, size, and site, dysp...

Quercetin which belongs to a group of plant pigments called flavonoids which help give many fruits, flowers and vegetables their colours. Such flavonoids, such as Quercetin also act as anti-oxidants. They hunt and neutralise the free radicals which damage cell membranes, change the DNA structure and also cause cell death. Quercetin is also believed to help protection against several degenerativ...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is one of the leading causes of death in men under the age of 35 that mostly occurs due to the road accidents. current clinical treatments have not enough repair and prevention of secondary damage caused by cytotoxicity. progesterone, as a primary sex hormone, acts as neuroprotection in tbi and stroke. progesterone increases anti-oxidants and decreases inflammation ...

Bilirubin arises from enzymatic reduction by biliverdin reductase of biliverdin, a product of heme oxygenase activity. Recent literature describes that bilirubin is a major physiologic antioxidant that can protect cells from chemical oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide. Recently, it has been reported that oxidative stress may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of asthma. We report a case of...