Combretum zenkeri is a small tree found in the tropical West Africa that has been applied by locals in the treatment of arthritic and other inflammatory diseases. This study investigated the free radical scavenging activities of ethanolic leaf extract of C. zenkeri against nitric...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/14039
Objective: To evaluate the antioxidant and organ protective activities Crossopteryx febrifuga Benth, in male albino rats. Methods: Animals were intraperitoneally pretreated with the methanolic extract of the leaf at 10mg/kg dose before intoxication with CCl4 (0.6mL/Kg). The hepat...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/13286
Ryma Amamra, Mohamed Reda Djebar, Nedjoud Grara, Ouissem Moumeni, Hadjer Otmani, Amel Alayat & Houria Berrebbah·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Synthetic Pyrethroids are considered to be safe over other insecticides; however, data indicate that their use may pose risk to environmental biota, especially, aquatic organisms. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of cypermethrin, a widely used...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/10852
Aims: Herbicides are the most effective tool against the major weeds of cultivated plants, and are necessary in maintaining or increasing crop yields. However, most of these molecules are highly toxic for crop. Their massive and repeatly use can cause adverse effects on all compo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9349
Aim: This study was designed to investigate the possible curative effect of Rhodotorula glutinis (R. glutinis) and its two mutants (Col-1R1 and Col-1R3) against hepatorenal toxicity induced by ochratoxin (OA) in rat. Methods: The strains of yeast Col- 1R1 and Col- 1R3 have been g...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10805
Amel Alayat, Lynda Souiki, Nedjoud Grara, Mohamed Reda Djebar, Zine Eddine Boumedris, Sana Benosmane, Rima Amamra & Houria Berrebbah·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
The effect of Cadmium stress on plant growth, oxidative stress and antioxidant enzyme of wheat seedlings (Triticum durum Desf.) was evaluated in this study. Cadmium stress decreased plant growth, lowered the relative water content and caused oxidative damage, as characterised by...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10641
Aims: Recent studies have demonstrated that all molecules of the respiratory chain are present in the photoreceptor outer segment (see Calzia et al., Biol Cell 2013). Furthermore, our group (Roehlecke et al., PLoS One 2013) could show that, after blue light stress of the retina,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9550
Some oxidative stress effects, such as lipid peroxidation or the DNA damage, have been extensively assessed and reliable biomarkers have been associated to characterize the degree of the damage, while the attack of reactive oxygen species on proteins and the formation of protein...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8763
Yaxuan Sun, Ting Liu, Xueling Dai, Zhaofen Jiang, Zhaolan Gao, Mei Zhang, Dong Wang & Qiusheng Zheng·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential neuroprotective effects of Dracocephalum moldavica L. total flavonoids (DMTF) on cerebral oxidative stress and damage as well as apoptosis induced by transient cerebral ischemia in rats. Methodology: Wistar rats...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8970
Aim: While antioxidant effect of ginger rhizome in reducing the oxidative stress in many diseases is well reported, there are limited studies on its effect in improving testicular function of cryptorchid rats. The present study was therefore carried out on cryptorchid rats given...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6078
Aim: The present work aimed to evaluate the effect of each of green tea (GT) and garlic (Ga) aqueous extract and their combination on pesticide Duracine induced changes in plasma levels of some indices of oxidative stress; and in protein electrophoretic patterns, in albino rats....
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6733
Spermatogenesis is an extremely active replicative process capable of generating approximately 1000 sperms a second with correspondingly high rates of mitochondrial oxygen consumption by the germinal epithelium. This process generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) through reactio...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4453