Background and Aim: Stem cells are cells that can proliferate to form a new tissue, leading to its use in regenerative therapy. Stem cells will secrete biological factors, such as growth factors, cytokines, and other proteins to their surroundings and culture medium/conditioned medium (CM), altering tissue physiology. These factors can help wound healing, but their effect on third-degree burns is poorly understood. This research aimed to study the activity of mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium gel in healing and repairing third-degree burns on rats skin. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four Sprague–Dawley rats with burn wounds on the dorsal area were divided into four groups; the first group was treated with CM gel, with a concentration equivalent to 0.05% protein, the second group was treated with a placebo gel, the third group with silver sulfadiazine (SSD) cream (SSD-Burnazin contain 10 mg/g SSD), and the fourth group was not given any treatment, for 21 days, and on the final day, the rats were sacrificed, and the skins were taken. All topical treatments completely cover the wound area. Results: Wound healing process indicators observed include wound diameter, scabs' formation, blister formation, and hair growth every day. The skins taken were processed with hematoxylin-eosin and Masson's trichrome staining. The indicators studied include neutrophil infiltration, mononuclear cell infiltration, neovascularization, collagen area, and re-epithelization ratio. Conclusion: CM shows better wound healing than other groups and faster hair growth.

Objective: This study aims to determine the effect of Amorphophallus muelleri Blume and Moringa oleifera L leaf on body weight, food intake, and hepatic histopathology in mice. Methods: The mice were divided into five groups according to their diet, which includes porang, wheat, porang-moringa, wheat-moringa, and control diet. Each group consists of 5 males and 5 females, which were fed for 28 d, and then analyzed for their body weight, total food intake, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as well as aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels in plasma, and hepatic histopathology. Results: The result showed that the group of porang and porang-moringa has lower body weight and feed intake, which is significantly different compared to the others. Furthermore, an increase was observed on plasma AST/ALT activities in 30% porang and 20% porang-moringa group. Also, one of the mice of porang group has inflammatory cell infiltration (++) on histopathology results. Conclusion: It was therefore concluded that feeding containing porang causes low food consumption. Furthermore, weight loss increases AST/ALT and leukocyte infiltration even though a mouse consistently deteriorates.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension and central obesity are risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Epidemiology studies have shown that these two conditions are closely linked and often occur simultaneously. Inflammation is an underlying pathomechanism in hypertension and obesity. Vascular inflammation is related to coagulation pathway, whereby high level of inflammation increases the risk of atherothrombosis event. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between inflammation and fibrinolysis in hypertensive centrally obese subjects compared with hypertensive non obese sbjects.METHODS: This was a cross sectional study conducted in October 2009-June 2010 involving 53 eligible subjects according to the following criteria: men or women aged 30-65 years, had neither diabetes (FPG <126 mg/dL and or OGTT <200 mg/dL) nor CKD (eGFR ≥60 mL/minutes). All subjects were not in an acute inflammation state, had no unspecific infection (hs-CRP ≤10 mg/L), or taking anti-inflammation or anti-hypertensive medication.RESULTS: In this study we found that the levels of hs-CRP (2.636 mg/L vs 1.024 mg/L, p=0.007), PAI-1 (43.58 ng/mL vs. 28.43 ng/mL, p=0.089) and TAFI (12.73 ng/mL vs. 12.19 ng/mL, p=0.479) were respectively higher in hypertensive subjects with central obesity than in hypertensive subjects with no central obesity. In hypertensive centrally obese subjects there was significant positive correlation between hs-CRP and PAI-1 (r=0.491, p=0.001) and TAFI (r=0.312, p=0.0390, meanwhile in hypertensive non-obese subjects significant correlation was found only between hs-CRP and TAFI (r=0.929, p=0.003).CONCLUSIONS: Obesity in hypertensive subjects has higher inflammation state that is correlated with fibrinolysis disruption.KEYWORDS: hypertensive, obesity, hs-CRP, PAI-1, TAFI

Obesitas merupakan keadaan dimana terjadi ketidaknormalan atau kelebihan akumulasi lemak dalam tubuh yang disimpan dalam jaringan adiposa. Keadaan obesitas akan mempengaruhi sekresi adiponektin. C-reactive protein merupakan suatu globulin yang disintesis oleh hepatosit, produksi CRP ini diinduksi oleh interleukin-6, interleukin-1 dan tumor necrosis factor α, yang kemudian akan disekresi ke dalam darah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara inflamasi dengan gangguan metabolisme karbohidrat dan metabolisme lipid serta mendapatkan data kadar High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein sebagai penanda inflamasi, Kadar glukosa darah untuk menilai gangguan metabolisme glukosa, sedangkan kolesterol, trigliserida, LDL untuk menilai gangguan metabolisme lipid dan mengetahui hubungan antara High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein dengan glukosa darah dan profil lipid (kolesterol total, trigliserida dan LDL) pada mahasiswa obesitas Fakultas Farmasi Universitas Pancasila. Penelitian ini dilakukan menggunakan metode observasional dengan rancangan penelitian cross sectional dengan pengambilan data secara consecutive sampling dimana peneliti melalukan pengukuran terhadap indikator obesitas (berat badan, tinggi badan, lingkar pinggang) kadar C-Reactive Protein (CRP) dan profil lipid. Uji statisitik yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Kolmogorov smirnov, Leaven test dan Spearman. Karakteristik responden berdasarkan parameter indeks massa tubuh didapatkan sebesar 27.54 kg/m2. Distribusi frekuensi pada parameter jenis kelamin yang paling banyak dengan jenis kelamin perempuan sebanyak 74,1%. Rerata lingkar perut sebesar 91.97 cm. Diketahui rata-rata 48,1% mahasiswa obesitas fakultas farmasi mengalami hiperglikemia, 48,1% mengalami hiperkoleterolemia, 37% hipertrigliseridemia, 88,9% hiperbetalipoprotenemia dan 29,6% mahasiswa memiliki kadar hs-CRP > 3 mg/L. Terdapat hubungan bermakna antara hs-CRP dan indeks massa tubuh (r = 0.503 dan p = 0.007) serta didapatkan juga hubungan bermakna antara indeks massa tubuh dan tekanan darah diastolik (r= 0.506 dan p = 0.007). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa indeks massa tubuh (IMT) berkolerasi dengan hs-CRP dan tekanan darah diastolik.

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