Protein-caloric-restriction diet during lactation programs lean phenotype and improves the antioxidative system in adult female rat offspring.

Nutritional insults early in life, such as during the suckling phase, are associated with phenotypic alterations and promote adverse permanent effects that impair the capacity to maintain energy balance in adulthood. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term effects of a low-protein (LP) diet during lactation on the metabolism and antioxidant systems of adult female rat offspring. Dams were fed a low-protein diet (4% protein) during the first two weeks of lactation or a normal-protein (NP) diet (20% protein) during the entire lactation period.

Dynamized ethyl alcohol improves immune response and behavior in murine infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.

Aim: To evaluate the effects of dynamized ethyl alcohol (Ethylicum)6cH and 30cH in mice infected with T. cruzi.

Methods: In a blind, randomized and controlled assay, 63 eight-week-old, Swiss, male mice, infected with IP (1400 trypomastigotes, T.