A Study of the Effects of Aqueous Extract of Adiantum capillus and the Strawberry Juice on the Bio-chemical test of blood Parameters in Albino male rats treated with Cholesterol

Abstract

This study was designed to study the treatment with aqueous extract of Adiantum capillus and Strawberry juice in albino male rats treated with Cholesterol and have Hypercholesterolemia. In this study 40 albino male rats were used and randomly distributed into 8 groups, each group contain 5 animals to the following groups. G1: This group was given standard normal pellet diet (for 2 months). G2: This group was given 2% w/w cholesterol with the pellet diet for 2 months. G3: Animal group was given 100 mg/kg aqueous extract of Adiantum capillus for 2 months. G4: Animal group was given pellet diet mixed with cholesterol as in G2 and aqueous extract of Adiantum capillus as in G3. G5: The animal of this group was given diet with cholesterol as in G2 then post-treated with aqueous of Adiantum capillus as in G3. G6: This animal group was give 7.7 ml/kg Juice for 2 months. G7: Animal group was given diet with Cholesterol as in G2 with Strawberry Juice as in G6. G8: This group was given Cholesterol as in G2 then post- treated with Strawberry Juice as in G6. At the end of treatment all animal groups were anesthetized of blood were collect via heart puncture for laboratory analysis. The results have shown that both aqueous extract of Adiantum capillus and strawberry juice have the ability to reduce the concentration of (TC, TG, LDL-C,VLDV and Atheind) while an increment in the concentration of HDL-C were found. These finding cause a decrement in lipid concentration in blood serum from this result we conclude that both aqueous extract of Adiantum capillus and strawberry juice could be used in dietary and treatment of Atherosclerosis and heart diseases.