Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Evaluation of some stress indicators and their relation with leptin injection in experimentally induced diabetic rats.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exogenous leptin administration on some stress indicators in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes rats.In this study wistar albino rats were divided into two main groups (first was 5 day, and second was 10 day), each one subdivided into four groups (5 rat per subgroup): 1. Control, 2. Leptin (10 μg/kg leptin, sc. daily), 3. Diabetes, (induced by single injection of streptoztocin (65 mg/kg bw)) 4. Leptin + diabetes. At the end of the experiments the blood collected by cardiac puncture under anesthesia. Plasma catalase, glutathione, malondialdehyde, and IL-6 levels were measured. Our results showed that diabetes decrease glutathione and catalase levels and increase MDA and IL-6 levels, while leptin treatment reverse these changes.see more

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