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ArticleJournal of diabetes and metabolic disorders2017

Zinc and curcumin lower arylsulfatses and some metabolic parameters in streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

Mahmoud Balbaa, Marwa El-Zeftawy, Nabil Taha, Abdel-Wahab Mandour

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Article in Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 55% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mahmoud BalbaaDepartments of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharram Bey, 21511 Alexandria, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-4406-882X
Marwa El-ZeftawyEdfina Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Nabil TahaEdfina Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Abdel-Wahab MandourEdfina Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Alexandria University · EG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In rats with induced diabetes, Zinc and curcumin treatment showed a significant increase of catalase and a significant decrease of glucose, lipid profile components and arylsulphatases activity compared to the untreated rats. We suggest that dietary zinc and curcumin are promising protective agents for reducing the metabolic defect of diabetes.

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