SUMMARY: Etoposide is an effective antimitotic and antineoplastic agent used to treat various human malignancies. In the present study, Etoposide was injected intraperitoneally into the rats at 1 mg/kg/day for 52 days (52 doses). The control animals received physiological saline (0.5 ml) intraperitoneall...
SUMMARY: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the most common complication of diabetes. Several studies have been done in a trial to protect against this problem at the ultrastructure level. This study investigates the protective effect of oral administration of Acacia senegal (AS) against the development of DN....
This experiment was designed to study the administration of normal doses of one of recent antimalarial drug and coadministration of vitamin E on the kidney tissue. A total twenty-four adult male albino rats were used and divided into four groups: the first one served as a control, the second received art...
Food additives and flavour enhancers used in the food industry are potential health risks. We tested the hypothesis that the food additive and flavour enhancer, monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is the sodium salt of glutamic acid can induce ultrastructural alterations to the kidney, and the antioxidant ...
En el presente trabajo se estudió por métodos citoquímicos para microscopía óptica y electrónica, si el paratión (un inhibidos competitivo de acetilcolinesterasa que produce un efecto natriurético), es o no un inhibidor de la enzima a nivel renal, en dois no inhibitorias de AChE de glóbulos rojo...
Em 1958 conseguimos identificar a presença de pigmentos no rim de parelheira (Philodryas schottii), uma cobra de nosso país. Retomando a mesma sistemática, constatamos a presença desses mesmos pigmentos no rim de outro réptil, a lagartixa doméstica, Hemidactylus mabuia. Caracterizamos, por métodos...
