Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes in rats is characterized by cardiovascular dysfunction beginning 5 days after STZ injection, which may reflect functional or structural autonomic nervous system damage. We investigated cardiovascular and autonomic function, in rats weighing 166 +/- 4 g, 5-7, 14, 30, 45, and 90 days after STZ injection (N = 24, 33, 27, 14, and 13, respectively). Arterial pre...

The present study aims to examine the influence of Quercetin (QR) in testis of Streptozotocin (STZ)induced diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced by a single injection of STZ (65 mg/kg, ip). Quercetin (25 and 50 mg/kg/day) was treated to normal and diabetic rats for 5 weeks. In serum, glucose, testosterone, Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-1beta (IL-1β) and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) levels ...

BACKGROUND To study the pathogenesis of diabetic cardiomyopathy, reliable animal models of type 2 diabetes are required. Physiologically relevant rodent models are needed, which not only replicate the human pathology but also mimic the disease process. Here we characterised cardiac metabolic abnormalities, and investigated the optimal experimental approach for inducing disease, in a new model o...

Protective effect was evaluated in streptozoticin (STZ)-induced diabetes rats. 2-Hydroxy 4-methoxy benzoic acid (HMBA) was isolated from the roots of Hemidesmus indicus and administered (500 microg/kg body weight) orally for 7 weeks to STZ-induced diabetic and non-diabetic rats to study its effect on protein metabolism, serum electrolytes and on liver and kidney lipid peroxides. Oral administra...

This review focuses on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) development type 1 and 2 diabetes its treatment with secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG) isolated from flaxseed which is an antioxidant suppresses phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) gene expression, a ratelimiting enzyme in gluconeogenesis liver. Role ROS [diabetic prone Bio Breeding (BBdp) rats streptozotocin-induced di...

objective(s): crocin influences many biological functions including memory and learning. the present study was aimed to investigate the effects of crocin on learning and memory impairments in streptozotocine-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal (ip) injection of streptozotocin (stz, 45 mg/kg). transfer latency (tl) paradigm in elevated plus-maze ...

It is not known whether the impairment of nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation of the aorta of diabetic rats is associated with any changes in the endothelial production of vasoactive prostanoids and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). Therefore, we analyzed the contribution of NO, vasoactive prostanoids and EDHF to the decreased endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation in Spragu...

The crude powder, ethanolic extract and aqueous, chloroform, hexane and n-butanol soluble fractions of ethanolic extract of heart wood of P. marsupium showed marked improvement on oral glucose tolerance post sucrose load in normal rats. All these fractions except aqueous fraction showed improvement on oral glucose tolerance post sucrose load on streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. The cr...

We investigated the role of the kallikrein-kinin system in cardiac function and glucose utilization in the streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rat model using a gene transfer approach. Adenovirus harboring the human tissue kallikrein gene was administered to rats by intravenous injection at 1 week after STZ treatment. Human kallikrein transgene expression was detected in the serum and urine o...

This study was designed to investigate the effect of hesperidin and naringin on serum glucose, blood glycosylated hemoglobin and serum insulin levels in high fat fed (HFD)/streptozotocin (STZ)-induced type 2 diabetic rats. In addition, the effect on serum lipid profile, adiponectin and resistin levels, cardiac function parameters and liver and muscle glycogen contents was assessed. Hesperidin a...