at present, a great deal of attention is being focused on the tortoise as a domestic pet. knowledge of the blood biochemical parameters in captivity of this animal would be helpful for evaluations of their health. in this regard, the serum biochemical values were measured in 12 asian tortoises (6 males and 6 females) before hibernation. serum values of total protein (top) 63.19 ± 7.57 g/l, albu...

background: activation of inflammatory cells can cause more chemicals induced-hepatotoxicity. aflatoxin b1 (afb1) is a fungal toxin that induces acute hepatotoxicity in humans and animals. this study was conducted to examine the effect of co-exposure lps and various aflatoxin b1 doses on the damage hepatic parameters in isolated perfused rat liver. methods: thirty-two male wistar rats (250-300g...

Objectives: To contribute to case management algorithms and guidelines by evaluating the clinical symptoms, laboratory data, risk factors mortality rates of patients admitted health institutions with tick bite in Tokat. 
 Methods: The virus determination was made from blood conventional PCR 141 patient. Epidemiological data such as socio-demographic variables were compared biochemical hema...

OBJECTIVE: In traditional medicaments, Teucrium Polium is used as anti-fungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic. Modern researches have shown that use of T. polium in vitro leads to decrease in fatty acids. To confirm the anti-diabetic evidences of Teucrium polium this survey was done to evaluate the effect of boiled aqueous extract of T. polium on serum lipids, body weight and...

Back Ground:Liver diseases are common disorders encountered in clinical practices. Investigations in liver diseases are used to detect hepatic abnormality, to measure its severity, to define it structural effect on the liver, to look for specific causes of liver diseases, assess prognosis and to evaluate therapy. Aim and Objectives:To study and compare the altered serum levels of enzymes GGT, A...

Objective: To evaluate the hepatoprotective properties of Otostegia persica (O. persica) ethanol extract on carbon tetrachlo‌‌ride-induced liver damage in rats. Materials and Methods: Fifty adult male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups. Group I served as normal control and was given only olive oil intraperitoneally (i.p.). Group II, III, IV, and V were administered CCl4 mixed wi...

Background: The mechanism of cadmium induced osteoporosis is not well understood, so in this study, we examined the toxicity of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) following treatment of rats with CdCl2 in drinking water, to revile the effect of this chemical on differentiation potential of MSCs. Methods: At the end of third passage, MSCs were grown in the osteogenic medium for 21 days....

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the clinical features of children who have survived a water submersion incident, and to identify risk factors for prognosis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who experienced submersion between January 2005 and December 2014. The patients were classified into 2 groups, according to complications, and prognostic factors wer...

BACKGROUND It is important to screen for alcohol consumption and drinking customs in a standardized manner. The aim of this study was 1) to investigate whether the AUDIT score is useful for predicting hazardous drinking using optimal cutoff scores and 2) to use multivariate analysis to evaluate whether the AUDIT score was more useful than pre-existing laboratory tests for predicting hazardous d...

Tempehs were prepared from soybean, bengal gram, cowpea and field beans with pure spore culture of Rhizopus oligosporus MTCC 556. Prepared soybean tempeh (ST), bengal gram tempeh (BT), cowpea tempeh (CT), field bean tempeh (FT) and basal diets were evaluated through diet intake, body weight gain, protein efficiency ratio (PER), feed efficiency ratio (FER), fecal loss, blood haemoglobin, liver a...