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Sumaiya I Lulat1, Yogesh Chand Yadav1, R Balaraman1
1Department of Pharmacy, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth University, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Aim:
This study is aimed to investigate the protective effect of Lithocare (LC) (a polyherbal formulation) against ethylene glycol (EG) induced urolithiasis in Wistar rats.
Materials And Methods:
The protective effect of LC (400 and 800 mg/kg) was evaluated using EG-induced urolithiasis in rats.
Results:
Administration of EG in drinking water resulted in hyperoxaluria, hypocalcemia as well as an increased renal excretion of phosphate. Supplementation with LC significantly reduced the urinary calcium, oxalate, and phosphate excretion dose-dependently. There was a significant reduction in the levels of calcium, oxalate as well as a number of calcium oxalate crystals deposits in the kidney tissue of rats administered with LC in EG-treated rats. There was a significant reduction in creatinine, urea, uric acid, and blood urea nitrogen when LC was administered in EG-treated rats.
Conclusions:
From this study, it was concluded that the supplementation of LC protected EG-induced urolithiasis as it reduced the growth of urinary stones. The mechanism underlying this effect might be due to its antioxidant, diuretic, and reduction in stone-forming constituents.
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