Ameliorative effects of Spirulina platensis against lead-induced nephrotoxicity in newborn rats: Modulation of oxidative stress and histopathological changes.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hypovitaminosis D is reported to be associated with several medical complications. Recent studies have reported a high worldwide prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in the general population (up to 80 %). This is even higher in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and increases with advancing stages o...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Rozita M,Noorul Afidza M,Ruslinda M,Cader R,Halim AG,Kong CT,Nor Azmi K,Shah SA

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with diabetes tend to have an increased risk of osteoporosis that may be related to hyperglycemia. In vitro evidence has shown that high glucose can affect the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Tissue regeneration depends mainly on MSCs. However, the exact mechanis...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Wang J,Wang B,Li Y,Wang D,Lingling E,Bai Y,Liu H

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoencapsulation of drug/small molecules in nanocarriers (NCs) is a very promising approach for development of nanomedicine. Modern drug encapsulation methods allow efficient loading of drug molecules inside the NCs thereby reducing systemic toxicity associated with drugs. Targeting of NCs can enhance the accumulatio...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Kumari A,Singla R,Guliani A,Yadav SK

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma or Liver cancer (LC) is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth cause of death worldwide in 2018. There has not been a comprehensive study on the survival rate of patients with LC in Asia yet. Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the survival rate of patients with LC in A...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Hassanipour S,Vali M,Gaffari-Fam S,Nikbakht HA,Abdzadeh E,Joukar F,Pourshams A,Shafaghi A,Malakoutikhah M,Arab-Zozani M,Salehiniya H,Mansour-Ghanaei F

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:R273H mutant p53 is a DNA-contact mutant that renders p53 dysfunctional due to a single substitution of Arg273 for His273. Rescuing R273 mutant p53 implies that a competent molecule would have to bind to the site of DNA-contact hot spots to complement the loss of contact with the DNA-binding domain. Here, curcumin, fl...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Malami I,Muhammad A,Etti IC,Waziri PM,Alhassan AM

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:From both the structural and functional points of view, β-turns play important biological roles in proteins. In the present study, a novel two-stage hybrid procedure has been developed to identify β-turns in proteins. Binary logistic regression was initially used for the first time to select significant sequence param...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Asghari MP,Hayatshahi SH,Abdolmaleki P

更新日期：2012-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of data on safety of herbal medicines have endangered human health and life. The present study evaluated the genotoxic and mutagenic effect of Kalanchoe laciniata to access the safety and usefulness of the medicinal plant. Aqua-methanolic and n-hexane extracts of K. laciniata were evaluated for the genotoxic pote...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Sharif A,Akhtar MF,Akhtar B,Saleem A,Manan M,Shabbir M,Ashraf M,Peerzada S,Ahmed S,Raza M

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to develop two alternate forms for Malay version of Auditory Verbal Learning Test (MAVLT) and to determine their equivalency and practice effect. Ninety healthy volunteers were subjected to the following neuropsychological tests at baseline, and at one month interval according to their assigned group; ...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Munjir N,Othman Z,Zakaria R,Shafin N,Hussain NA,Desa AM,Ahmad AH

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine whether exposure of operating room personnel to inhalation anesthetics, including nitrous oxide, isoflurane, and sevoflurane was associated with any hepatotoxic or nephrotoxic changes. Fifty-two operating room personnel and 52 non-exposed subjects were studied. A questionnaire pe...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Neghab M,Amiri F,Soleimani E,Yousefinejad S,Hassanzadeh J

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Everolimus (EVR), as a rapamycin analog, is a selective inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase and its associated signaling pathway. mTOR is a serine/threonine protein kinase and its hyperactivity is involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and associated cognitive deficits. Th...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Fanoudi S,Hosseini M,Alavi MS,Boroushaki MT,Hosseini A,Sadeghnia HR

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to microgravity leads to orthostatic intolerance in astronauts and differential vascular structural and functional adaptations have been implicated in its occurrence. The present study tended to clarify the characteristics of vascular inflammation and oxidative stress in hindlimb unweighting (HU) rat vasculat...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Zhang R,Ran HH,Gao YL,Ma J,Huang Y,Bai YG,Lin LJ

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate the mechanism of electro-acupuncture (EA) on the recovery of injured spinal cord. Rats were randomly divided into normal control, sham-operated, SCI, SCI+EA group and T10 segment spinal cord injury (SCI) rat model was established by the modified Allen's method. After 7 days, the...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Zhu Y,Wu Y,Zhang R

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional uses of Portulaca oleracea L. (PO) with anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity as well as antioxidants properties were expressed previously. Glioma is considered the most common primary brain tumor and its malignant form is the most lethal adult brain tumor, that glioblastoma covers about 50 % of g...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Baradaran Rahimi V,Mousavi SH,Haghighi S,Soheili-Far S,Askari VR

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether offspring sex ratio at birth (SRB) was associated with maternal breast cancer risk, the present case-control study and a meta-analysis of literature were done. A total of 389 female breast cancer patients who had at least one offspring participated in the study. From general population 356 healt...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Saadat M

更新日期：2010-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Although osteoarthritis (OA) is widely accepted as a degenerative disease, autoimmune processes are believed to be involved in the pathogenesis. There are limited studies in this area and most of them focused on antibodies against chondrocyte membrane. In an attempt to address the paucity of evidence in thi...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Sakthiswary R,Rajalingam S,Norazman MR,Hussein H

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimentally-induced total sleep deprivation (TSD) and chronic partial sleep restriction (CPSR) leads to the emergence of cognitive impairments. This is hypothesized to result from a consequent neuroinflammation which may also hasten the neurodegenerative processes. Neuroinflammatory markers such as tumor necrosis f...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Torabi-Nami M,Nasehi M,Zarrindast MR

更新日期：2013-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most fundamental operations in biological sequence analysis is multiple sequence alignment (MSA). The basic of multiple sequence alignment problems is to determine the most biologically plausible alignments of protein or DNA sequences. In this paper, an alignment method using genetic algorithm for multiple ...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Kumar M

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a common protozoan parasite, which infects warm-blooded mammals, including mice and humans, throughout the world. The negative effects of T. gondii infection on the human reproductive system have been documented, especially in females. However, only few studies have examined the effects of T. gond...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Saki J,Sabaghan M,Arjmand R,Teimoori A,Rashno M,Saki G,Shojaee S

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There are abundant studies indicating that blocking gap junctions (GJs) containing connexin 36 (Cx36) inhibit seizures. However, recent evidences demonstrate proconvulsant effect of such intervention. Electrical coupling between GABAergic interneurons in CA1 region of hippocampus is mediated through Cx36 GJs. We inves...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Ghanbarabadi JK,Sayyah M

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoenix sylvestris (Arecaceae family) known as Indian Date Palm has been identified as a component of traditional medicine against various ailments. The present study was focused on phytochemical screening of crude hexane, dichloromethane and methanol leaf extracts. The crude extracts showed the presence of alkaloids,...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Sharma DC,Shukla R,Ali J,Sharma S,Bajpai P,Pathak N

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) form a rare population of multipotent stem cells, which give rise to all hematopoietic lineages. HSCs home to bone marrow niches and circulate between blood and bone marrow. Many factors, especially SDF1a, affect the circulation of HSCs, but these have not been fully recognized. SDF1a h...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Asri A,Sabour J,Atashi A,Soleimani M

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a dynamic system in which different factors affect human performance via dynamic interactions, mental workload needs a dynamic measure to monitor its factors and evidence in a complicated system, an approach that is lacking in the literature. The present study introduces a system dynamics-based model for designing ...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Jafari MJ,Zaeri F,Jafari AH,Payandeh Najafabadi AT,Hassanzadeh-Rangi N

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a condition associated with metabolic abnormalities that are characterized by central obesity (e.g. waist circumference or body mass index), hypertension (e.g. systolic or diastolic blood pressure), hyperglycemia (e.g. fasting plasma glucose) and dyslipidemia (e.g. triglyceride and high-dens...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Worachartcheewan A,Schaduangrat N,Prachayasittikul V,Nantasenamat C

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ursolic acid (UA) is a pentacyclic triterpenoid carboxylic acid that is found in plants and herbal products. It is one of the chemopreventive agents, which can suppress cancer cell proliferation and induce apoptosis. UA possesses various biological activities including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Kaewthawee N,Brimson S

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephropathy associated with type 2 diabetes is the single most common cause of end-stage renal disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the preventive effect of ethanolic extract of Embelia ribes fruit (EER) against high fat diet (HFD) and low dose streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic nephrotoxicity in W...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Chaudhari HS,Bhandari U,Khanna G

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:L-asparaginase and L-glutaminase can be effectively used for the treatment of patients who suffer from accute lymphoblastic leukemia and tumor cells. Microbial sources are the best source for the bulk production of these enzymes. However, their long-term administration may cause immunological responses, so screening f...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Shirazian P,Asad S,Amoozegar MA

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce (Leguminosae) (syn. Prosopis spicigera L.) has antidiabetic and antioxidant potential. Earlier we reported its hypolipidemic activity obtained from ethanol extract (ET-PCF). Object of this work was to isolate ferulic acid (FA) from ET-PCF and evaluate hypolipidemic activity against high-f...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Jain PG,Surana SJ

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 77 year old male patient with metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET). The patient was initially treated by extensive surgical resection that however, led to severe complications with delayed recovery. During follow-up, a number of new liver metastases were detected, one of which was ...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Ataeinia B,Loberg C,Kravets H,Beheshti M,von Mallek D,Mottaghy FM,Heinzel A

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A reliable biomarker has not been identified to predict the outcome of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children. Therefore, the present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the association between neuron specific enolase (NSE) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children. Two independent reviewers searc...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Nakhjavan-Shahraki B,Yousefifard M,Oraii A,Sarveazad A,Hosseini M

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to establish a cell culture of adult primary bovine hepatocytes obtained from liver following slaughter and to cultivate the cells in a sandwich culture. Cells and medium samples were taken after separation of cells (day 0), during monolayer (days 1, 2 and 3) and during sandwich culture (days 1, 2, 3, 4, 7...

journal_title：EXCLI journal

authors： Ehrhardt S,Schmicke M

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00