Biomedical subjects

A A Hafeiz

Publications and source records attributed to A A Hafeiz.

2 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1992

Plasma catecholamines in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Fifty pulmonary tuberculous patients (minimal; moderate and far-advanced), 18 TB-healed persons and 15 healthy control subjects were examined for plasma levels of adrenaline (AD), noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA), ACTH and cortisol. The estimated hormones were found to be increased significantly with the severity of the disease suggesting that the stress of infection plays a role in induction of enzymes responsible for catecholamines synthesis with subsequent stimulation of ACTH and cortisol secretion. Noradrenaline appeared the most effective in this respect.

Adrenocorticotropic Hormone↗

PubMed1978

Effect of ascorbic acid on oxygen consumption, glycolysis and lipid metabolism of diabetic rat testis. Ascorbic acid and diabetes, I.

Alloxan diabetes caused a marked stimulation of endogenous oxygen uptake by rat testis tissues. However, the oxygen uptake in the presence of added glucose or pyruvate as substrate was significantly reduced. The ability of the testis tissues to utilize these substrates and to produce lactate was significantly inhibited in the diabetic animals. Alloxan diabetes also increased the levels of cholesterol, cholesterol esters, non-esterified fatty acids, triglycerides and phospholipids in rat testis tissues. Treatment of the diabetic rats with ascorbic acid caused more or less a normalization of all the parameters tested.

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