Protection of hepatotoxicity using by prevention of ethanol-induced oxidative stress, DNA-damage and altered biochemical markers in Wistar rats.

Background: Traditional systems of medicine use herbal drugs for hepatoprotection. Thus, the study was designed to evaluate the hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects of bark extracts against ethanol-induced liver injury in Wistar rats.

Methods: Group I animals were treated with 1 mL/kg 0.

Hypocalcemia in a Saudi intensive care unit.

Objective: Hypocalcemia has been a common abnormality in the West, seen in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). It has also been linked with disease severity. We undertook this study to determine the frequency of hypocalcemia in patients admitted to the intensive care unit.