Therefore, more herbal toxicity and drug-herb interaction studies should be encouraged. Public
should also be made aware of the side effects of medicinal plants and patients should be …

Objective: To study the effect of erythropoietin (EPO) treatment on renal and lung injury
following renal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). Materials and Methods: Thirty male Wistar rats were …

Artificial sweeteners are a class of food additives that provide sweet taste without increasing
caloric intake. They are also named as ‘nonnutritive sweeteners,’‘high-intensity sweeteners,’…

Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a rare but devastating disorder; it involves small
vessels and is characterized by intravascular thrombi of aggregated platelets leading to …

Marie-François Xavier Bichat (1771–1802) was a prominent French anatomist during a time
of revolution and one of the founders of French scientific medicine. He conducted several …

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical educationHypertension is considered
as a major risk of cardiovascular diseases worldwide. It has been evidenced that oxidative …

Metformin, a biguanide drug, is widely prescribed to treat high blood glucose in individuals
with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a troubling chronic disease and …

Background: Periodontal disease has been associated with a number of systemic diseases.
A high prevalence of periodontitis among individuals with chronic kidney diseases and end-…

Several genetic mutations are associated with nephrotic syndrome, including those of genes
producing proteins nephrin, podocin, alpha actinin-4, an adapter protein anchoring CD-2, …

Cytomegalovirus has been implicated in the pathogenesis of transplant renal artery stenosis.
However, the clinical course of this infection-associated transplant renal artery stenosis …