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ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2017

Anti-Atherosclerotic Potential of Aqueous Extract of

Im Nagendra Nayak, Rajasekhar Chinta, Raghu Jetti

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Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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Im Nagendra NayakProfessor and HOD, Department of Pharmacology, Mount Zion Medical College, Adoor, Kerala, India.
Rajasekhar ChintaSenior Grade Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Raghu JettiAssistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Guraiger, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAtherosclerosis is one of the major causes of disability of blood vessels which can result in development of many cardiovascular disorders. There is a strong association between atherosclerosis and insulin resistance and dyslipidemia.

aimTo study the anti-atherosclerotic potential of MATERIALS AND

methodsA sum of 36 rats were categorized into five study groups and one plain control. In a 12 day study period, respective drug treatments were given every day throughout the study period whereas, dexamethasone dosage was started from day seven onwards. On day 12, fasting blood samples were collected and processed for lipid estimation and the determined values were also used to assess AI further. Animals were sacrificed under ether anaesthesia and the aorta was dissected away for its measurement and histopathological findings. One-way ANOVA was used to analyse the data and multiple comparison was done, interpreted based on Post-Hoc Scheffe test.

resultsHigh dose of dexamethasone (8 mg/kg/i.p) in Dexa Control (DC) group produced significant dyslipidemia, increased risk of atherogenicity (p<0.05) and caused severe thickening (78.5% compared to Plain Control (PC) of wall of aorta. Rosiglitazone (ROSI) (8 mg/kg and 16 mg/kg) and C. zelanicum (CZE) extract treatments (500 mg/kg and 250 mg/kg) significantly prevented dyslipidemia, well maintained AI compared to dexa control (p<0.05). However, both the CZE treatments protected the aorta from atherosclerosis (40.3% and 30.2% compared to DC) and significantly prevented the dyslipidemia and reduced the risk of atherogenicity compared to ROSI treatment (p<0.05). Although, the CZE did not show difference in significance in maintaining very low density lipoprotein when compared to ROSI (p>0.05). The atherosclerotic changes were completely absent in both the CZE treatments whereas, ROSI treatments did not prevented the atherosclerosis of aorta completely as they showed moderate and mild atherosclerotic changes in the aorta.

conclusionThe aqueous extract of

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ArteriosclerosisAtherogenic indexDexamethasoneDyslipidemia

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PMID28658798
PMCPMC5483700
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