* The effects of dietary boron compounds in supplemented diet on hormonal activity and some biochemical parameters in rats.
- The aims of this study were to clarify the effects of dietary boric acid or borax, as a boron (B) source, on hormonal status (leptin, insulin, triiodothyronine (T3), and thyroxine) and some biochemical parameter levels as glucose, carnitine, nonesterified fatty acids, and betahydroxybutyric acid in rats. A total of 30 Sprague-Dawley male rats were divided into three equal groups: the animals in the first group (control) were fed with a standard rodent diet containing 6.4 mg B/kg, and the animals in the experimental group were fed with a standard rodent diet added with boric acid and borax (100 mg B/kg) throughout the experimental period of 28 days. The B compounds especially borax decreased leptin, insulin, and glucose levels, whereas increased T3 and carnitine levels in plasma. In addition, body weight of rats was found to be low in the boric acid group at the end of 4 weeks. Consequently, our results demonstrate that B supplementation (100 mg/kg) in diet decreases body weight, leptin, and insulin, whereas increases T3 levels in plasma, so enhances the metabolic activity of rats. Between the B compounds used in this study, it was found that borax had a greater effect on hormonal status than boric acid.
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Overview of noun acid
The noun acid has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) acid -- (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning
litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
2. acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
pane, superman, window pane, Zen -- (street name for lysergic acid diethylamide)
Overview of adj acid
The adj acid has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent,
vitriolic -- (harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a
barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering
criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a
sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique")
2. acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous -- (being sour to the taste)
3. acid -- (having the characteristics of an acid; "an acid reaction")
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