Nephroprotective effect of lavandula officinalis l. ethanolic extract in alloxan induced diabetic rats

Mehrdad Azarmi aghajan,1,* Sevda zeinali,2 Hassan saeiahan,3 Saeid zehtab salmasi,4 Gholamreza dehghan,5

1. Department of Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University
2. Department of Animal Biology, University of Tabriz
3. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
4. Department of Ecophysiology, University of Tabriz
5. Department of Animal Biology, University of Tabriz

Abstract


Introduction

Diabetes mellitus (dm), a metabolic disorder is a major public health problem in both developed and developing countries. dm increases risk of several serious health problems or complications including hyperlipidemia, poor metabolic control, nephropathy, hepatopathy. so this study was to investigate the probable nephroprotective effect of loe in the alloxan-induced diabetic models.

Methods

Twenty eight male albino wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups as following: healthy control group (hc) receive saline (0.9 % i.p.)during the experimental days; diabetic group (dc) receive single i.p. administration of alloxan (120mg/kg b.w); first dose treatment group (ft) received a single dose of alloxan (120mg/kg) and loe (100mg/kg b.w) i.p. for 21 consecutive days and second dose treatment group (st) receive single dose of alloxan (120mg/kg) and loe (200mg/kg b.w) i.p. for 21 days.

Results

All diminished level of mda, sod, cat, urea and creatinine in treated diabetic models showned the nephroprotective activity of loe.

Conclusion

High potential antioxidant and neproprotective effect of loe.

Keywords

Diabetes, lavandula officinalis, nephroprotective, oxidative stress