Therapeutic and toxicological assessment of hydroethanolic leaf extracts of in apparently healthy rats.

Unlabelled: The use of medicinal plants in the management or prevention of diseases is one of the oldest human medicinal practices worldwide. and are widely reported for their use in the management of blood disorders, hypertension, and diabetes.

Objective: The study aimed at evaluating the effects of hydroethanolic leaf extracts of and on the biochemical, hematological, and histological parameters of apparently healthy rats.

Tolerance and breath hydrogen excretion following ingestion of maltitol incorporated at two levels into milk chocolate consumed by healthy young adults with and without fasting.

Little is known about the gastrointestinal effects of ingesting maltitol in chocolate. This study was designed to determine whether it leads to increased gastrointestinal symptomatology and if that symptomatology is dose related. It was also designed to discover whether breath hydrogen excretion in response to maltitol is dose related.

[Liver abscess. Imaging and interventional radiology in French Polynesia].

23 cases of liver abscess are reported (13 pyogenous, 10 amoebic). Clinical feature is rather uniform and evocative; thanks to picture technics, diagnosis was easy in 22 cases but hesitating in one case. Semeiology revealed by scanner or echography is detailed.