Functional evaluation of bronchiectasis patients

Twenty bronchiectasis patients compared with 10 normal persons were studied to achieve the subjective of this work. Both groups were comparable as regards age and sex. Bronchiectasis patients showed defects in the ventilatory functions with prominent obstructive element defect compared with normal persons as well as hypoxia with increased arteriovenous shunts. These defects are related to the extent of the disease as they depend on the number of bronchopulmonary segments affected

Effect of teucriumoliverianum and cleome africana: thire hypoglycemic activity

The aqueous extract of Teucrium polium, Teucrium oliverianum and Cleome africana, the antidiabetic plants used in Saudi Arabia, was administered orally for 2 and 4 weeks to male mature normal and alloxan-diabetic rats. The normal rats were kept on a long duration of plant extract administration when a case of hyperglycemia was encountered with an increase in the insulin and glucagon levels. On the contrary, the extracts exerted a significant [P <0.001] hypoglycemic effect in alloxan-diabetic rats, and this continued for 6 Hours