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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016

The Hypoglycemic and Antioxidant Activity of Cress Seed and Cinnamon on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetes in Male Rats.

Safaa Qusti, Haddad A El Rabey, Sarah A Balashram

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Safaa QustiBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21789, Saudi Arabia.
Haddad A El RabeyBioinformatics Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute, Sadat City University, Sadat City, Monufia 32897, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-4347-6864
Sarah A BalashramBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21789, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdulaziz University · SABiotechnology Institute · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study aimed to estimate the stimulation of pancreas of rats with streptozotocin induced diabetes using 20% (w/w) garden cress seed (Lepidium sativum) and cinnamon methanol extracts. The positive control diabetic group showed a significant increase in fasting blood sugar, lipid peroxide, interleukin-6, carboxymethyl lysine, serum uric acid, urea, creatinine, immunoglobulins, and urine albumin and a significant decrease in antioxidant enzymes, sodium ions, potassium ions, and urine creatinine. Severe histopathological changes in the kidney and pancreas tissues in hyperglycemic rats were also shown in the positive control diabetic group. Meanwhile, the groups that were treated with 20% garden cress seed and cinnamon methanol extracts showed a significant decrease in fasting blood sugar and all elevated abovementioned biochemical parameters and an increase in the lowered ones restoring them nearly to the normal levels of G1. Kidney and pancreas tissues were also ameliorated and restored nearly to the normal status. Both garden cress seed and cinnamon methanol extracts succeeded in controlling hyperglycemia in rats with streptozotocin induced diabetes and ameliorated the biochemical and histopathological changes because of their antioxidant activity acquired by their possession of phenolic phytochemicals.

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