Wistar rat
The effect of celery (Apium graveolens L.) on reproductive parameters in male wistar rat
... normal Wistar rat spermatozoid in the control group of valid articles and with more precision we noticed that the number of spermatozoid in the experimental groups of this study is equal to the spermatozoid ...
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Colon Cancer and Swimming Exercise: Effect on Wistar Rat Testes
... This is the first study that correlated the DMH- induced colon cancer and testicular structure and the effect of a long-term swimming program on the testis of Wistar rats with colon cancer. The colon cancer is ...
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Key words: Caesalpinia ferrea, Wistar rat, reproductive system, toxicological assessment, chronic and sub-chronic
... Caesalpinia ferrea Mart (Leguminosae) is a medicinal plant used to treat diabetes, among other therapeutic properties, but which is also reported to have hepatotoxic effects. Although it contains substances such as ...
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Experimental tuberculosis in the Wistar rat: a model for protective immunity and control of infection.
... the rat and cause delayed type hypersen- sitivity responses to tuberculin, similar to observations in some strains of mice ...the rat have reported on the histopathology and bacillary load in the lungs of ...
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Evaluation of the effect of a gamma irradiated DBM-pluronic F127 composite on bone regeneration in Wistar rat.
... Demineralized bone matrix (DBM) is widely used for bone regeneration. Since DBM is pre- pared in powder form its handling properties are not optimal and limit the clinical use of this material. Various synthetic and ...
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Characterization of the myenteric neuronal population and subpopulation of the duodenum of adult wistar rat fed with hypoproteic chow
... The effects of severe protein malnutrition (4%) on myenteric neurons of Wistar rat duodenum, in relation to a standard 22%-protein diet for rodents, were assessed in this study. Segments of the duodenum ...
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Effects of Passiflora edulis on the Metabolic Profile of Diabetic Wistar Rat Offspring
... Wistar rats were kept in the vivarium of Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (Lins Campus), Brazil, under con- trolled conditions (12-hour/12-hour light/dark cycle, mean ambient temperature – standard deviation ...
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Stress-induced phosphorylation of c-Jun-N-terminal kinases and nuclear translocation of Hsp70 in the Wistar rat hippocampus
... of Wistar male rats e�posed to acute� chronic� and combined stress� The activ� ity of �N�� was decreased in both compartments by all three types of stress� while the activity of cytoplasmic �N�2/3 was elevated in ...
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Association of somatic and N-domain angiotensinconverting enzymes from Wistar rat tissue with renal dysfunction in diabetes mellitus
... Renal rat tissues were fixed in 10% buffered formol. The samples were submitted to a conventional histology preparation and stained with haematoxylin-eosin (H&E), periodic acid – Schiff (PAS) and picro-sirius. ...
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Influence of a 60 Hz, 3 µT, electromagnetic field on the somatic maturation of wistar rat offspring fed a regional basic diet during pregnancy
... In this experiment 66 male, newly born rats from the Wistar strain, whose mothers were submitted to four different conditions, were used. The female rats were 90 days old when they mated. Fertilization was ...
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Crocin reduced acrylamide-induced neurotoxicity in Wistar rat through inhibition of oxidative stress
... Objective(s): Acrylamide ACR has many applications in different industries. ACR damages the central and the peripheral nervous system in human and animals. Importance of ACR‐induced neurotoxicity encouraged researchers ...
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Cardiac Aging in Female Wistar Rat Models With Sedentary or Physicaly Active Lifestyle
... female Wistar rats with 5 months of age (Charles River Laboratories, Barcelona), were either immediately sacrificed (sedentary young group, Y; n=7) or housed in cages with (active old group, AO; n=6) or without a ...
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Brachial Plexus Morphology and Vascular Supply in the Wistar Rat
... The BP in all animals studied was composed of branch- es originating from the ventral aspect of C4 to C8 and T1. In 57% of cases (n = 17) the ventral aspect of T2 established an anastomosis with the ventral aspect of ...
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Effects of Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. and Bauhinia candicans Benth infusions on
... Medicinal plants are widely used to treat various diseases, and in Brazil the plants Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. and Bauhinia candicans Benth are commonly used in popular medicine. However, there are a large number of ...
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Effect of electroacupuncture to prevent selenite-induced cataract in Wistar rats
... Fifty Wistar rat pups were randomized into 5 groups of 10 animals: Group 1 (control), no procedure was performed; Group 2 (selenite), sodium selenite (30 micro- moles/kg body weight) was injected ...
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Synaptic reorganization in the adult rat's ventral cochlear nucleus following its total sensory deafferentation.
... the Wistar rat, we first determined what fraction of the total number of synaptic contact zones (SCZs) in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) is attributable to primary sensory innervation and how ...
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Characterization of six rat strains (Rattus norvegicus) by mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism
... to 0.33%, which is lower than the values found by Brown and Simpson (20), 0.4 to 1.8%, and Hayashi et al. (21), 1%. The lower values of genetic divergence among the four clonal lineages obtained in our study can be ...
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Differential effect of plant lectins on mast cells of different origins
... rial, magnesium was found (0.012 mM) in the concentration much lower than that nec- essary to occupy the binding sites of the metallized lectins (25,36). Glucose satura- tion did not prevent the histamine-releasing ...
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Immunohistochemical characterization of the chemosensory pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies in the naked mole-rat reveals a unique adaptive phenotype.
... the bioactive amine, serotonin (5-HT), and a variety of peptides with multiple effects on lung physiology and other organ systems. NEBs in mammals appear prominent and numerous during fetal and neonatal periods, and ...
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Braz. J. Pharm. Sci. vol.45 número3
... Nowadays, the high blood pressure is one of the main causes of death and cardiovascular diseases. Vasodilator drugs are frequently used to treat arterial hypertension. Experiments were undertaken to determine whether ...
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